02-28-2019, 10:31 PM
[#0000FF]Wow. That brings back some haunting memories. On a first trip to Willard 3/16/2010 I didn't do so well fishing, but figured I was lucky. I brought home two souvenirs. One was a nice mallard decoy I found floating around. The other was a brand new kayak paddle...with the price tag still on it. (see pics)[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]A couple of days later I learned that someone had drowned off Pelican Beach...while in a Kayak. I called the State Park office at Willard and told them of the paddle I had found. They asked if I could relinquish it for their investigation...which I did.
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"rest of the story" is that it turned out to be a guy from Idaho who bought the kayak new and headed south to the only open water he could find. That was Willard. And they determined that he had committed suicide...due to some personal problems. Evidently he just paddled out and rolled the yak over.
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[#0000FF]Neither myself or either of the other guys with me had even a sniff that day. We wondered if there was some kind of curse on the lake.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]A couple of days later I learned that someone had drowned off Pelican Beach...while in a Kayak. I called the State Park office at Willard and told them of the paddle I had found. They asked if I could relinquish it for their investigation...which I did.
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"rest of the story" is that it turned out to be a guy from Idaho who bought the kayak new and headed south to the only open water he could find. That was Willard. And they determined that he had committed suicide...due to some personal problems. Evidently he just paddled out and rolled the yak over. [/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Neither myself or either of the other guys with me had even a sniff that day. We wondered if there was some kind of curse on the lake.[/#0000FF]
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