If you have autocheck on and its dying, use  eval { } to trap it, example

 my $ua = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
 ...
 eval { $ua->get(...); 1 } or do {
    warn "Caught a fish: $@";
    next LOOP;
 }
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Also, this is documented in WWW::Mechanize