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June 02, 2009
Fly Caster Catches Three Would-Be Drowning Victims
By Dave Hurteau
From The Oregonian:
Don Elder of Gresham didn't expect to catch anything Sunday afternoon when he waded through the crowd at Oxbow Regional Park and into the Sandy River to practice his fly-casting technique.
But three people he pulled to the shoreline with a bright chartreuse and orange, salmon-strength class fly line are thankful he's getting better.
Elder, 52, saved a man, his small sister and his fiancee from the Sandy's deep and numbing snowmelt-fed water about 2 p.m. Sunday as they were swept toward rapids near Buck Creek, upriver from Oxbow's boat ramp.
Check out this incredible story.
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Comments (6)
Wow. Seems unbelieveable.
That's SOME fly line!
talk about a once in a life time chance. man if that ever happened to me i would always buy that line and i would email the company that the new slogan should be that it "CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE".
Definitely Keepers ... What a stringer!
That is one hell of a fly line. Seems like a commercial like that would be appropriate for fishing line... "Strong enough,even when your life depends on it". I can see the commercial now. On the main subject, I am glad that everyone is ok and the that the guy is getting better... that's one excuse to tell the wife he needs to go fishing...
Thats a realy cool story.
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Wow. Seems unbelieveable.
That's SOME fly line!
talk about a once in a life time chance. man if that ever happened to me i would always buy that line and i would email the company that the new slogan should be that it "CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE".
Definitely Keepers ... What a stringer!
That is one hell of a fly line. Seems like a commercial like that would be appropriate for fishing line... "Strong enough,even when your life depends on it". I can see the commercial now. On the main subject, I am glad that everyone is ok and the that the guy is getting better... that's one excuse to tell the wife he needs to go fishing...
Thats a realy cool story.
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