Holy cow...weird and disturbing

[basscat tyler]

Kim Fox

This. And damn this story is wild

[Hoot]

What a terrible experience Mr Pirch sure handled things well.

[coreynov902]

A chill ran down my spine reading that story...wow!

[tcesni]

Trust your instincts, millions of years of evolution help to develop them.

[pabasshawk]

horrible experience.

[Cobra1957]

WOW! Just WOW!

[rboren]

Makes you wonder whether you would have guessed the correct thing to do for sure. Odds are I will never know and I definitely want to keep the odds in my favor. I don’t see that ever being out of a person’s mind! Wow

[west_tn]

Man that is so bizarre. I can't even imagine what that had to have been like for Pirch.

[Asabove]

Creepy story. And yeah, that DA is a POS. Putting everybody in danger.

[keeferfish]

That is Nuckin Futs!

[188Musky]

Evidence that that zombies cannot cross water?

[mattmann7]

Couldnt think of a more dramatic fishing story. Wow.

[Booster]

That is the first I have heard of that horrible event. I find it surpising that the story stayed so hushed.

[jkainoa]

Wow. Something he'll never forget.

[yatesville88fan]

Dang that would b scary. Yea that guy should have been in jail. Really sad what our criminal justice has become.

[clayshooter]

He needed more than jail, should have been directed to go to an institution for mental help at the very least and prison preferably.!

[Jeff Hahn]

Could have turned out a lot worse for the woman in the wheel chair and the child that were on the bank. Another example of our pitiful system for dealing with the mentally ill.

[mactlman]

Wow. Always worrying about who is hanging around the ramps also in the am

[ncbass]

The way he described everything is just like something off the big screen...nightmare material

[Topwater All Day]

Cliff spoke at a club meeting last year and mentioned this event - it really shook him up. Crazy to think about how that all went down and the decisions he had to make in that moment.

About 10 years ago I was fishing at Folsom Lake, which is the closest lake to Sacramento so lots of folks access it. I was with my daughter who was about 7 at that time and we came across a guy clinging to a rock about 50 yards off the bank. The area is known as the "Rock Gardens" because it has a lot of large rocks and can go from shallow to deep and back shallow again very quickly. As I got closer to him he was asking for help and that he couldn't get back to shore. I started talking with him and at first I thought he was naked! Turns out he was fully clothed, but they were tan/light colored and he said he had been there overnight clinging to the rock. Before I got too close, I asked what had happened and he said he was at a bonfire party the night before and got into it with a couple guys and ended up running into the lake to get away from them. He had been drinking and got disoriented and ended up on the rock and couldn't figure out how to get back to shore! Once the sun came up, he was too tired to swim back to shore so he just waited there for someone to help him. Luckily it was summer and fairly warm out and water temps were in the 70's. The rock was big enough that he could get most of the way out of the water. So I had him grab the railing of my boat and idled up near shore where he could get off. He said thank you and went on his way...what a weird day!