Helped bring more than salmon out of the water

[hookr88]

I was running back towards Mukilteo, about a 1/2 mile south when I noticed some odd objects in the water. Couldn’t figure out what they were at first. Took me a second to realize one of them was a person. Holy crap! I started heading over to help and thankfully by the time I got there, only a minute or two and there were already two boats on scene beginning the rescue. The bigger of the three of us was already making contact with one of the two fisherman in the water. They both had life jackets on, so other then being wet and cold they were not in distress. After making sure that the bigger boat was able to get them on board the other boat and I began to recover their personal items. They said that they took a wave over the side and that was it, their boat, probably 14’ or smaller, couldn’t recover and just sank. I’ll say it’s a wake up call for me. I tend to not wear my life jacket even when fishing alone. Unless it’s dead calm, I’ll be wearing it it from now on. Especially after hearing how fast their boat sank.

[Jake Dogfish]

Glad to hear they made it back alive.

[Born2late]

I think I actually saw that! I was half way across running back to Everett and was looking in that way and could see a triangle shaped thing. Wonder if that was the nose of their boat? I looked at it a couple times thinking maybe it was a kayaker with something weird sticking up. I guess I’ll have to investigate more if I see something weird. Good job helping them!

[Stein]

Great work, we're 100% life jacket on my boat.

That said, a 14' should have enough flotation to keep it from sinking unless they have been modified.

[wadu1]

  Way to go

[MADMAX]

Good job bud
I wear an inflatable vest
Easy
Never know

[Happy Gilmore]

Always good to have your radio on and scanning. Never know.

[CP]

Good for you for helping out.  I was out there this morning and it was quite the S show.  Anything that could float was being put to use and a lot of those vessels were not sea-worthy. I expect it will get worse with the long weekend and the historically good fishing.

I fish solo a lot but I always wear a PFD.  Hopefully, if I ever fall overboard someone will come to my rescue.

[WAcoueshunter]

Good for you!  That's crazy, but I suppose somewhat inevitable in a pink season!

I'm a 100% life jacket person too.  I and my kids are very good competitive swimmers, although they will sink and I will float at this stage!  But we still wear lifejackets 100% of the time.  We fish big water in a small boat, and I fish alone most of the time.  At some point I will wind up in the water, and I'll be happy I have my PFD on!
 

[Irish_hunter93]

2 years ago me and my girlfriend were out on the east side of possession bar, had a kid in a kayak row up next to my boat just asked for help and paddled off, we pulled our gear out and followed him to where his dad was hanging on to his overturned kayak, they couldn't right it. Pulled the guy into my boat from the water, tied his kayak off to my boat and gave him a ride to shore, made sure he knew what day it was, his name, where he was at, etc. Turns out he launched his kayak with his kid from the beach to humpy fish. Anyways, got him in really close to shore, bailed  the water out of his kayak, set him in and gave him a shove back towards a angry looking wife on the shoreline. He took a wave from a big boat ripping by and over he went. I think his name was Tom. Made for quite the eventful day. He was wearing a life vest, could have been a totally different outcome if he wasn't. He was in the water for roughly 10 minutes, drifted out to the middle of the shipping lane, not many people out there in the middle, kind of a choppy day to.

[Alchase]

My neighbor in Silverdale (back in the late 80s) was fishing Point No Point By himself. While trolling, he had to pee. He made one huge mistake. He was wearing his vest, but I unclipped his kill switch so he could pee over the side of the boat.
Yep, a wave hit just right from the opposite side and over he went.
His vest kept him afloat as he watched his boat continue on its way towards Mukleteo.
Another boat saw him after about 15 minutes in the water, picked him up and chased down his boat.
The funny part, when he brought his gear in, he had a small silver on that his boat dragged half way across the sound.
 

When he told me about it, I reached into my boat and gave him a 1qt rinsed out oil bottle, that was cut out perfectly to use in a boat with one hand and not worry about drippage!