Saw something pretty good yesterday. Usually, the canal and its fishers gets some choice words tossed their way and, for some, deservedly so. So Saturday, after fishing near (but not too near) some pretty nice anglers, I returned to my truck only to be stopped partway by an ambulance parked with lights flashing. By the time I got there, a number of anglers were assisting the paramedics in hoisting a man up from the bushes partway down the bank. I got there in time to help the last few feet. It turns out the man was going from his truck to the trail down to the canal, had a diabetic episode, and fell down the side into the blackberry bushes.
It was gratifying to see good people not hesitating to help someone in distress, and that it was a good thing for this man that he was fishing in a crowded canal, and not in an area where he was on his own.
Hats off to these canal anglers.