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09-26-2008, 06:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,620
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scituate jetty scare
so i'm making the rounds this am and i hit the jetty in scituate. there was a guy who gets a borderline keeper but it gets stuck in the rocks still on the hook. it's high tide and pretty snotty, waves are breaking, and just no way to get to the fish. he takes off and i'm not far behind him. i figure i'll take a ride back in a bit when the tide goes out and see if it's still there. i hit a few more spots and double back. there is no sign of the fish but there was one other adventurous soul giving it a go. the tide was out a bit but the waves are still crashing the jetty pretty fierce. i hang a few schoolies and the guy further down ties into a decent fish. i watch him get it into the jetty and he starts climbing down the jetty to get it. right before my eyes the ocean swallows him. he's just gone. i'm stunned but snap out of it and start making my way in his direction. it seems like an eternety but get to where he was. he's hanging on to the rocks for dear life. his face is bloody and he is in trouble. i start screaming at him to hang on and he is staring at me blankly. i scurry down a few rocks and he comes to. he starts climbing up towards me and i grab him and we get to the top of the jetty and he says "my rod". i start laughing and collapse. we stumble back to the parking lot and get him cleaned up. he looks like mike tyson had his way with him but is fine. he gives me a hug before we leave and says "i owe you a beer man". he is one lucky young man and thank god it ended well.
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09-26-2008, 06:54 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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wow....good work Paul...you saved that guys life!!!!! 
scary chit.... |
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09-26-2008, 07:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
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Good work Paul !
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09-26-2008, 07:15 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
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Productive Friday morning catch fish & save a life nice job 
I'll buy you a beer next time we hook up 
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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09-26-2008, 07:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
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nice job Paul
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09-26-2008, 07:17 PM
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Registered User
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Location: stoughton, ma
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Wow, nice work Paul!
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09-26-2008, 07:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Worcester MA
Posts: 79
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Scary
That's scary stuff and hits home for most times I fish alone. Lucky for him you were close enough to help.
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09-26-2008, 08:11 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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nice work, Paul!
it's a GOOD thing you doubled back.
Thanks be to God,
you were there where you needed to be
there and when you needed to be there, to
hep a surfbruddah OUT!! gotts ta pay attention
if yer gonna fish tha schnottt!!
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"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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09-26-2008, 08:12 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Credit to you for doing what needed to be done in spite of significant risk to yourself.
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09-26-2008, 08:53 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Paul, please pm me your address.......I think your courage and selflessness deserves a little something in the way of wood! Fine job and you have my admiration!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-26-2008, 09:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Plymouth, MA
Posts: 193
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nice...
nice work Paul, it's a good thing you were there. I was on the rocks the other night alone, took a digger and decided to head home. Pretty scary feeling.
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21' Sea Pro WA
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09-26-2008, 09:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northport,NY
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Wow, quick thinking man. Very couragious nice job.
I guess he lost the rod huh?
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09-26-2008, 10:45 PM
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got gas?
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,716
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You saved his life..
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09-27-2008, 01:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: CT/RI
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Damn scary stuff! You definitely saved that guys life he is lucky someone else was there to help him out!!
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09-27-2008, 04:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bridgewater, MA
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Good for you to react so quickly. That would have been a bad scene.
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--Mike Malone
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09-27-2008, 05:47 AM
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wishin' i was fishin'
Join Date: May 2001
Location: toooo far from the beach !!
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no two ways about it , great karma !!!
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09-27-2008, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Jackson
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He's lucky you were there. Right place right time. IF it wasn't for you seeing him go down he'd a been a gonner.
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The voices in my Head are telling me to go Fishing If I don't they won't go away
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09-27-2008, 06:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,716
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I don't get it...what happen to the fish  |
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09-27-2008, 07:06 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Goose
I don't get it...what happen to the fish |
Hopefully, it was put to good use on the guy who went over the side
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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09-27-2008, 07:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: CONNECTICUT
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great job paul you saved that guys life.hope my sons read this cause they were out in that surf going done the rocks getting fish and almost bought the rock a few times.
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09-27-2008, 07:36 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
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job well done paul! ....and what larry said  |
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09-27-2008, 07:54 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
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Attaboy
You were put there for a reason, way to rise to the occasion. |
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09-27-2008, 08:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vineyard Haven
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Excellent work! Glad you both made it out of there.
" My Rod!" LOL, I would have said the same thing.
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09-27-2008, 08:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: marshfield ma
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great job with guys like you out there i feel safe cause like you said mother nature can just swallow you up out there. |
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09-27-2008, 08:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
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scary stuff, nicely done ... hats off to you
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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09-27-2008, 08:45 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Way to go, Paul. He is here to fish another day because of you.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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09-27-2008, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: north shore
Posts: 624
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nice job...always amazes me that stuff like that does not happen more often - people being tossed into the drink in snotty conditions...
you likely saved his life...
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09-27-2008, 09:21 AM
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I Had A BLAST!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: I'm from Manhattan, Live in CT., but my heart is in SoCo!
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Good job, my friend. I believe we are all where we are supposed to be at any given time. |
Be encouraging, not discouraging
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09-27-2008, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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Paul,
You risked your life to save a life of someone you didn't even know. There are not enough like you out there.
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09-27-2008, 12:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 14
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For all of you who are reminded of that time you came close
wear an autoinflate PFD on the rocks. They don't get in the way, they don't inflate unless submerged (waves do NOT inlfate them) and they will save your life and spare the ones who love you they anguish of going on without you.
They cost less than a good reel. Don't be a dead _____.
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