You know you’re having a bad day when you finally shrug off your responsibilities, get out on the water for a little fly fishing, and relax… Ahh, the peace… The tranquility… The light plane that almost crashes on your head…

A fly fisherman fled for his life when he landed something planely a lot bigger than he’d bargained for.

The Robin plane crashed into the bank of the trout lake in Porta Westfalica, Germany, shortly after take off when it clipped a tree with its undercarriage.

Amazingly, the pilot and three passengers walked away from the mangled wreckage with barely a scratch.

“I could see this plane right overhead and it lurched as it hit one of the trees,” said fisherman Felix Ackerman on the other side of the lake.

“It dropped like a stone and the poor chap on the bank underneath it had to run like hell to get out of the way,” he added. (Click here to see a picture of the plane, which is pretty well mangled.)

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.