Unbelievable

[Fisthead]

I forgot about this and thought it was one of the most incredible stories I've ever heard, if true...
A little over a month ago a friend of mine was fishing a lake somewhere in the Salem/Portland area. I don't remember which lake it was now, but it was decent sized. He lost his wallet over the side of his boat but didn't realize it until much later when he couldn't do anything about it. He had three paychecks in there and was going nuts as he was sure he'd never see any of it again. Just one week later he gets a call from a guy in salem who said he hooked his wallet while fishing. He tracked my friend down and gave him a call and he got his wallet and checks back. That's either the most incredible coincidence ever or it didn't happen that way. I was wondering if anyone on here knew the person who found it or if that person themselves is a member of the board.

[Deleted User]

NO WAY! :rolleyes:

[STGRule]

There was a story on the news awhile back about a guy who lost his wallet in a hay field while cutting and baleing. A little over a year later his wallet was returned by a gentleman from Japan who found his wallet in the middle of a hay bale and got some help translating (he only spoke Japenese) the documents so he could get it back to him. Talk about going out of your way to do a good deed!

[Gus Orviston]

wow, i can't even get my wife to tell me where I left my car keys :whazzup:

[Rimshot]

Several years ago I was camping on a beach just downstream from the inlet to Camas slough. It was a hot day and I jumped in for a swim. I forgot to take out my wallet and when I realized it, it was already gone. We felt around on the bottom for a while but couldn't find it. About a month later I recieved it in the mail along with everything that was laminated or plastic in it. There was a letter from the guy who found it. He found it on the shore near where he lived... Astoria!! I lived in Vancouver at the time and he was curios to know if I had lost it near my address. He gave his phone number so I called and told him where I lost it and we both couldn't believe it could travel that far and end up on the shore with everything still in it. But it did :grin: . True story.

[Rimshot]

Just wondering if there are any other stories like this out there. Kind of fun to read :smile: .

[ragjr]

Some people have all the luck whenever I lost my wallet I never get it back. That is why I only take the must haves(fishing,drivers license, AAA card). But it is reinsuring that there are still honest people out there.

[moman]

Floating out of the Delta Lakes region in Alaska 10 years ago and heading into the Delta River for a minimum of a three day raft float, I hooked a Patagonia synchilla coat with a camera and wallet in the pocket, Unfortunatley, both were ruined beyond recognition. I washed the coat and wear it still. Patagonia even repaired the zipper at no cost. This is really the middle of no where, the chances must have been next to nil.

[Fisthead]

Wow. I guess that's why that Patagonia stuff costs so much! Great stories :smile:

[Paddlefish]

Once upon a time . . .

I was lazily watching the sun set over Salishan Spit, lounging on my back atop one of the huge old growth stumps marooned on the tide flats along the east, Cutler City side of Siletz Bay. Great way to end a warm summer day.

Several hours later, about 11:30 PM, I reached for my wallet and my "daily planner:" the tide book contained therein. (Yeah, I know. Some 21-year-old guys carried condoms around in their wallets. Mine contained a tide table. :grin: )

Anyway, I was dismayed to find a very empty pocket. :shocked: It didn't take long to do the math: those 1970-era white Levis had pretty shallow pockets. My wallet must have dropped out when I was reclined on that big stump.

By this, time, however, I knew the tide would be in and my twilight "lounge chair" would be well out into Siletz Bay. Nonetheless, I had to make an effort, so I gathered my hip boots and flashlight and went back down to the bay.

Sure enough, there was my stump in the flashlight's beam, 75 yards from shore, semi-submerged in the bay.

Once again, against all hope, I decided to make the (no doubt futile) trip to the scene of the crime. I waded out, through the darting sculpins and startled crabs, to the stump / root combination, now surrounded by 18 inches of salt water, and scrutinized it with my flashlight.

There, four inches above the brine, suspended mid-air between two roots and held by two diagonally opposite corners, was my wallet.

:cool: :rolleyes:

I decided to be r-e-a-l-l-y careful about EVERYTHING I did for the rest of the year. I figure I'd used up all my good luck on one evening.

[ 10-02-2002, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Paddlefish ]

[Fishalot]

Tilla lost his watch/Rolex at the duck club and some one on the club shot a Goose and in was inside the Honker, NOT. The fact is a fellow hunter did find it a few months later laying on the ground , Glen was all :grin: :grin: :grin:

Fishalot

[ 10-02-2002, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: Fishalot ]

[Spoiled Daddy]

About 10 years ago we went to Wickiup Res for a weeks vacation. I lost my wallet the first or second day there. We got home several days later and there was a small package with our mail. In it was my wallet, with it contents intact, including about $75 in cash. No return address, just a short note saying that they had found it on a trail in the Gull Point campground. The note just urged me to do a favor for someone in the future. I have that note folded up in the back of a picture frame that holds a pic of a big brown trout from that trip. :smile: SD

[Hogmaster]

About 10 years ago as I sat in an innertube being pulled around Lake Biily Chinook in front of the dam I saw my wallet fly though the air and land in about 340' of water. :shocked:

Has anybody seen it?

PS - fisthead - 3 paychecks? What kind of guy carries around 3 paychecks in his wallet????

:cheers:

[ 10-02-2002, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Hogmaster ]

[invader]

hum -- wonder what that guy that caught the wallet was using for bait? .but if the dept of fisheries had anything to say. it would be catch and release!

[Wright Angle]

Hogmaster, At one time long long ago and far far away it was not unusual for me to have five or six paychecks in my wallet at one time. But then that was before the wife and kids. :grin:

[ 10-02-2002, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Wright Angle ]

[Moleman]

A few summers ago I was trapping moles for a customer near SW 42nd and Hamilton. I found a wallet on Humphrey Park Blvd. about 2 months later. It had her name on a list of class mates for a class reunion. I called her and asked if she knew who the guys wallet was, she said it was a class mate of hers from high school....un-real!

[Fisthead]

Hogmaster, the kind of guy who fishes too much when he's not working to make it to the bank.

[Paddlefish]

Now, Killer . . .

You really want us to believe that?

I mean . . . fishermen have a "certain reputation" for exaggeration, but REALLY! :rolleyes:

[Miss B Haven]

Hey killertraylor - Nice new Avitar! No - I didn't know you were a lawyer, but since you brought it up:

Do you know how to tell when it's REALLY cold outside?
When you see a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets! :grin: :wink:

:cheers: :cheers: I sure hope I get to meet you on the water and not at your place of work! graemlins/1zhelp.gif

[Propwash]

I am glad for the persons that got thier stuff back. I lost my wallet once a long time ago and it was returned to me very promptly with contents intact.I never forgot that. I sent the man a nice radio as a thank you for your honesty gift. Over the years since, I have found two billfolds and a cash reciept book with substantial amount of money in it. I returned all of the items intact,with my address and never got so much as a thank you from any of the people.There is no point to this ,I just kind of thought some of these people would of at least said thanks.

[Plum Crazy]

Tip of the Rod,
A buddy told me a story of he had a hook up of a monster steelie a few wraps of some rock and he was gone. 2 weeks latter his fishin buddy in his boat catches that same fish and returns his hot shot to him line and all.
Now that is a Hot Fish story.
Fire :cheers:

[Killertraylor]

This is the most amazing story yet. Many of you know I'm a lawyer. About 6 months ago I was sitting on the crapper at work when my wallet containing my checkbook and about $50 in cash fell out of my pants and onto the floor. About 15 minutes later another lawyer returned my wallet and only $20 was missing! :grin: