Rescue Mission, Lower Squamish River..

It all started out as one of my routine fishing days on the lower Squamish River. I met Jonathon, in the morning and when I saw him he said the river was up pretty high and flowing fast. We looked at it for awhile and there was no way that we could get to the the bar on the other side of what was now a raging side channel. Then things got alittle crazy. There were a bunch of people camping on the Island and they were stranded and couldn't get back over to the dyke. I saw Brian from Whistler Flyfishing, and then Pat showed up with his raft. He went to get everybody back from the Island, and then had to get all their gear over, and that took a few trips. There was one other guy that was fishing out there that I had to go and help pull him out of the river and back on the river bank. I waded out about halfway accross and grabbed him. Everybody was back on the bank, and some were alittle wet. After all that they were happy that we were there to help and we talked for awhile and hand shakes, and high fives all around. It was one of those flash floods that happened so fast after the five hours of heavy rain that fell the night before. The sun is shining and everything turned out well!!..