Went
Fishing, Caught 4 Deer......
A once in the history of mankind kind of thing. The Best Day Of Fishing Ever!
Some
fishing stories are
a little hard to believe but this guy has pictures to prove his story... I've
heard of salmon
jumping into boats, but never anything quite like this.
Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat.
“Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed. I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it! Once on board, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering."
“This is a picture I took of the rescued bucks on the back of my boat , the Alaska Quest. We headed for Taku Harbor.
Once we reached the dock, the first buck that we had pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say 'thank you' and disappeared into the forest.
After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.
This is me carrying the little guy.
My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn’t know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive.
Note: this happened several years ago, but it's still a great story!
That's a great story.
ReplyDeleteThey were so young - wonder how they knew humans would save them?
DeleteThat's a very good story - people doing the humane thing and the deer being very cool about the whole process.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the story. LL! I think that most people would help an animal in distress if they could.They were lucky the deer were too exhausted to do any damage to the boat or the crew.
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