Went camping last weekend with the party barge up at fort desoto. The weather wasn't so great but we decided to do a little fishing anyway. On the way out we went under the bridge and noticed a guy standing on the bridge piling fishing and looked to be having a good time. I couldn't help but tell my dad what a fool the guy was in the rough weather with his 8 ft aluminum boat tied up to the piling and continued on to the next bridge to get out of the wind and pretty heavy chop but didnt catch a thing. On the way back I couldn't help see the mans hand waving frantically over the bridge fender but couldn't see the rest of the guy. I came around to the other side of the fender to see him hanging on to his boat with one hand and waving the other in the air. I pulled up and he jumped right on my boat happy to be alive. As I pulled him and his overturned boat to shore it occurred to me that seatow had just passed through just before I did and I asked the man if he had seen them. I was amazed when the man told me that he had spoken to the operator of the seatow vessel and the man said he would call it in to the coastgaurd and went on his way.:facepalm:
(hopefully that is not too great a leap of faith. 