Camels Island Commotion

[Wreckingball76]

So there I am fishing of the back of Camels island at Marsden, minding my own Business, not much happening. All the while I can here this commotion coming from the top of the Leas, near the Grotto car park. Sirens from an ambulance then a Police car. So I carry on fishing minding my own business. After a while and the cold setting in I decide to head up to see what all the commotion is about as its started to build. I wade back across from the island and head up top to find 2 policeman and the coastguard searching over the cliff edge. Being a good Citizen I walk up behind them and enquire about what there searching for:

Me: "can I help you?"
Pc: " is he with you, is that your mate?"
Me: "who?, no I'm on my own"
Meanwhile the coastguard drives up also....
PC: "are you not with that lad on the island?"
Me: "I am the lad on the island!"
PC: "how did you get back up here!"
Me :"waded back across and walked up that path"
PC: (looking at my fishing rod, waders and floatation vest and speaks into his radio) "roger 10/4 call of the engines, it's a fisherman, he's safe and sound and here with me!"

Turns out some cyclist had been riding along the coast and phoned the police saying "someone is stranded on the island"!

Police, coastguard and fire engine all called to rescue me from my perfectly safe situation!

:red::red::red:

Anyway, didn't catch anything, so that's my Lures and light gear going away for the Winter. Time to dust off the multi's, get the heavy gear out. Find my wooly hat and get the floaty out.

It's time to get smelly, cold and wet again!

 

[rod-the-cod]

Haha

 

[Iva-Cod-on]

Class you couldn't have wrote that one shame on you all that tax payers money and rescources lol

 

[hulme6612]

haha classic.
we're you embarrassed mate?

 

[lovetofish]

Classic mate.

Regards Rushy

 

[Wreckingball76]

Don't know who was more embarrassed, me or the Policeman. Anyway they were dead canny and we had a little joke about it.

Ivan, I try to limit myself to one emergency call-out a year! I pay enough bloody tax lol

I was actually thinking about what would have happened if I'd stayed on there! I'm picturing helicopters, boats and a slot on Look North!

 

[wavy davy]

Same happened last winter while i was fishing the shelves, 2 lads where fishing the side of camels and they must have caught a fish as they started to take photographs of it, obviously the flash was going off, 10 mins later the place was crawling with police and coastgaurds, i climbed up to tell them it was fishermen and they had been there for hours but they said they had to be sure, so one goes down to the bottom of the path and starts shouting over to them, after a few yells of "are you ok over there", the reply came back "of course we are, were just effing fishing", gave me a little chuckle.

 

[The Deeps]

Damn nice that someone was concerned enough to call the services though.....on another day........

 

[wonmorehoy]

Brilliant

 

[codseeker]

Welldone to all concerned

 

[Thunderpants]

Ha ha superb that!

 

[Davey-m]

Good to hear a search and rescue with a funny ending

 

[Juliogeordio]

Lol Mike.... nice to know someone cared enough to ring 999, if my lass knew it was me im sure she would have left me to my fate! lol

Nice to hear a funny ending for a change instead of some dead person.

 

[DurhamAngler]

Makes me wonder why the cyclist never shouted over.That would`ve stopped all the confusion

 

[boatangler33]

haha quality

 

[Pete from shields]

LOL nice one, some common sense on the cyclist part wouldn't of gone amiss lol.

 

[phill_itofish]

I think I would have tried to get your attention and see if you were ok before ringing 999, alls well that ends well. I'll give you a shout when im going out with the bait mate

 

[Deans]

thats one hell of a tale mate.
enjoyed the read

 

[bigfen]

why the fire engines ? were you on fire?

 

[Wreckingball76]

why the fire engines ? were you on fire?

No I definitely wasn't on fire! Lol

I've got no idea mate, just what the Policeman said, he cancelled them coming. Maybe for ladders or something to bridge the gap, I really don't know??

Maybe the cyclist did try to shout, but I didn't hear it. Only heard the Sirens!!

I was thinking the exact same thing about them trying a bit harder to find out If I actually was in danger. To be honest iv tried to stop analysing it now, the whole thing was pretty surreal, especially doing the walk of shame back to the car! Lol

Fair play to all because they acted with the best intentions and for that I'm grateful.