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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: TheHunt on July 11, 2012, 01:41:22 PM

Title: Latest luck fishing..
Post by: TheHunt on July 11, 2012, 01:41:22 PM: For the last two Mondays my son and I have been hitting a river catching steelhead. Both times have provided an opportunity to help some amazing men.

1. My son was fishing we heard a 5 gallon bucket banging. Dog comes out of the brush. Old, old man comes out brush. Muddy knees and tired. I go over to see if he is OK. He is sitting on the bucket. I told him I heard some yelling in the woods. He said it was him and he was not yelling. He was swaring as he broke the tip off his pole. Chatted with him for a little bit to see if he was OK. Than he headed back up. I asked if I should follow him back up and he said I goes up hill better than down hill. Bill was 87 years old... My son ran up the hill 20 min after Bill left and he was just getting into his truck.

2. This last Monday we were fishing a hole I am on one side my son is on the other. Old guy come down to the river and start to cross. Gets a little low in the fast moving water and starts to go down I drop my rod and start to run to the old guy. My son is running and reeling his rod at the same time. We met at the old guy who is now on his knees struggling to stay up right. I grab one arm my son grabs the other and we pick all 120 lbs of this guy and take him to shore. We walked him to my side of the river and he sat next to our stuff for 20 min. Than asked if he could fish with us. Oh, he also told us he had a heart attack a year ago. Yikes... Clay was 80 years old.

Both very nice men very thankful and are getting out there in the twilight of their lives.

One hole a group of fishermen pulled 12 steelhead out. Nothing big... But a fish is a fish.
Title: Re: Latest luck fishing..
Post by: arrowflinger on July 11, 2012, 01:48:07 PM: :tup: We need more people in this world like you!
Title: Re: Latest luck fishing..
Post by: h20hunter on July 11, 2012, 02:15:38 PM: Gotta have peoples back out there. Just last weekend out crabbing I came across soem folks with the cowl off the motor and drifiting. Stopped by and he said he was just working the kinks out of a new throttle cable he installed. I hung out for minute until he was under way. We bumped into each other at the launch after pulling the boat out. I was cleaning some crab and he happed to pull right next to me. He mentioned he appreciated me stopping by and that other boats had simply passed right by.
Title: Re: Latest luck fishing..
Post by: Ripper on July 11, 2012, 02:47:09 PM: It feels good to help people out, even the stupid ones. I got flagged down by a bunch of people in a brand new boat. The owner/driver couldn't get it started and had his whole family out stranded on Lake Goodwin. I hopped in his boat and got it started then about a half hour later they flagged me down again. They stopped to fish and again couldn't get the boat started. It was flooded. The women on the boat begged me to tow them back in because they were scared. The guy wanted me to just start it again for him. I towed them back to the dock. When I left I suggested that they sell the boat and take up a new hobby! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Latest luck fishing..
Post by: Kola16 on July 11, 2012, 11:57:06 PM: Quote from: h20hunter on July 11, 2012, 02:15:38 PM
Gotta have peoples back out there. Just last weekend out crabbing I came across soem folks with the cowl off the motor and drifiting. Stopped by and he said he was just working the kinks out of a new throttle cable he installed. I hung out for minute until he was under way. We bumped into each other at the launch after pulling the boat out. I was cleaning some crab and he happed to pull right next to me. He mentioned he appreciated me stopping by and that other boats had simply passed right by.

Did you happen to be at Kayak? I saw something like this happen there. It was good that someone helped the guy out that I saw because he definitely needed it, and I was only in a kayak.