MadisonBoats
08-08-2009, 08:48 AM
I was fishing the Clinch Wednesday Morning with my nephew and noticed a fishing net underwater close to the shoreline. I had to jump in and pull the net out of the tangle. The net was a nice high-end retrieve net and there was a Williams Joseph Vest attached to it. The vest was loaded with all the nice gear and flies.
I became worried about what happened to the fisherman and started looking through the vest for identification. At last, I found his fishing license in the hidden pocket. I called his after finding his number on the phone-yellow pages. He was OK and had flipped his canoe the day before with his kids in it. They were being pushed by the generator and they lifted up on one of the shoals and flipped. He lost his rod, some tackle, vest, cooler, and a few other things. Some other boaters helped pull them all ashore and they picked up most of the floating stuff. TWRA was called about their canoe floating down stream and they snagged it. So, he ended up losing his fishing vest and rod in the end.
Well, I found his fishing vest and took it straight home. I took everything out and let it dry out. I dried each of his flies and put them nicely on a foam board so they would retain shape and not bleed on each other. He had about 200 flies and he said it was 10 years worth of flies.
OK, I was fishing yesterday morning on the Clinch and looked over and saw something flash. It was the gold logo on the fishing rod. I was able to lift the end of the rod up with my rod and retrieve it for him. I called him from the river and he could not believe it. It was about a half mile from where I found the vest.
I just thought this to be a very odd story that I found both of these items for him. He picked up his vest and flies already and I have his rod ready to give him after church Sunday.
Thought I would share and to remind you to please add your name and phone number to your tackle. I have found numerous fly boxes and I could not return them due to not having identification on them. Take a nail or dremel and scratch your name and number on the back of this stuff if you value it.
Then, you have to just hope an honest person finds it...:smile:
I became worried about what happened to the fisherman and started looking through the vest for identification. At last, I found his fishing license in the hidden pocket. I called his after finding his number on the phone-yellow pages. He was OK and had flipped his canoe the day before with his kids in it. They were being pushed by the generator and they lifted up on one of the shoals and flipped. He lost his rod, some tackle, vest, cooler, and a few other things. Some other boaters helped pull them all ashore and they picked up most of the floating stuff. TWRA was called about their canoe floating down stream and they snagged it. So, he ended up losing his fishing vest and rod in the end.
Well, I found his fishing vest and took it straight home. I took everything out and let it dry out. I dried each of his flies and put them nicely on a foam board so they would retain shape and not bleed on each other. He had about 200 flies and he said it was 10 years worth of flies.
OK, I was fishing yesterday morning on the Clinch and looked over and saw something flash. It was the gold logo on the fishing rod. I was able to lift the end of the rod up with my rod and retrieve it for him. I called him from the river and he could not believe it. It was about a half mile from where I found the vest.
I just thought this to be a very odd story that I found both of these items for him. He picked up his vest and flies already and I have his rod ready to give him after church Sunday.
Thought I would share and to remind you to please add your name and phone number to your tackle. I have found numerous fly boxes and I could not return them due to not having identification on them. Take a nail or dremel and scratch your name and number on the back of this stuff if you value it.
Then, you have to just hope an honest person finds it...:smile: