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Danny Carr catches more than fish in Folsom Lake. His latest find: a wallet that was submerged since June.</blockquote>
There are the fish Danny Carr has pulled out of Folsom Lake – a 10-pound largemouth bass a couple of years ago, plus countless smallmouth bass. Then there is the stuff – fishing lures, sunglasses, kayak paddles and, earlier this month, a wallet complete with fish-nibbled cash.
"I fish the banks, so I walk a lot," says the 57-year-old retired carpenter from Fair Oaks. "I walk along the bank and there it is. And this year, I've found so much because the water keeps going down and down and down.
"This wallet would never have been found if it weren't for the drought. When he lost his wallet, it was probably in 30 to 40 feet of water which is now mud."
After Carr fished the sodden wallet out of the lake, he did what he always does when he finds something on a fishing trip – he went searching for its owner.
Matching people with their things is simply the right thing to do, Carr believes. He has lost his own wallet twice, so he knows how it feels. Once there was $900 cash in it, and the person who found it turned it into police; another time he lost it on a hunting trip and the person who found it eight months later sent it to him in the mail.
It all comes back around, Carr figures.
This time, Carr called the number on the back of a credit card and got a call a couple hours later from the wallet's owner, Steve Hansen of El Dorado Hills.
"It was wild that it had been there for 4 1/2 or five months," says Hansen, 39, a computer engineer. "I had turned my boat upside down and given up on it."
Hansen had been wakeboarding in June near Brown's Ravine when his wallet likely was knocked off the boat. Once he looked through his boat and truck, he figured he'd never see the wallet again. Then his bank called, and he popped over to Carr's home to pick it up.
He tried to give Carr the $33 of cash in the wallet but Carr wouldn't take it. So instead, Hansen listened to the stories of the other things Carr had found throughout the years – camera and video equipment left ashore, dog collars and leashes he returned with the help of the dog tags, a boat anchor, gold-panning dishes.
"I thought it was pretty cool because a lot of people might not bother at all," Hansen said. "I guess fishing isn't about what you catch, it's about the stories you have."
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Danny Carr catches more than fish in Folsom Lake. His latest find: a wallet that was submerged since June.</blockquote>
There are the fish Danny Carr has pulled out of Folsom Lake – a 10-pound largemouth bass a couple of years ago, plus countless smallmouth bass. Then there is the stuff – fishing lures, sunglasses, kayak paddles and, earlier this month, a wallet complete with fish-nibbled cash.
"I fish the banks, so I walk a lot," says the 57-year-old retired carpenter from Fair Oaks. "I walk along the bank and there it is. And this year, I've found so much because the water keeps going down and down and down.
"This wallet would never have been found if it weren't for the drought. When he lost his wallet, it was probably in 30 to 40 feet of water which is now mud."
After Carr fished the sodden wallet out of the lake, he did what he always does when he finds something on a fishing trip – he went searching for its owner.
Matching people with their things is simply the right thing to do, Carr believes. He has lost his own wallet twice, so he knows how it feels. Once there was $900 cash in it, and the person who found it turned it into police; another time he lost it on a hunting trip and the person who found it eight months later sent it to him in the mail.
It all comes back around, Carr figures.
This time, Carr called the number on the back of a credit card and got a call a couple hours later from the wallet's owner, Steve Hansen of El Dorado Hills.
"It was wild that it had been there for 4 1/2 or five months," says Hansen, 39, a computer engineer. "I had turned my boat upside down and given up on it."
Hansen had been wakeboarding in June near Brown's Ravine when his wallet likely was knocked off the boat. Once he looked through his boat and truck, he figured he'd never see the wallet again. Then his bank called, and he popped over to Carr's home to pick it up.
He tried to give Carr the $33 of cash in the wallet but Carr wouldn't take it. So instead, Hansen listened to the stories of the other things Carr had found throughout the years – camera and video equipment left ashore, dog collars and leashes he returned with the help of the dog tags, a boat anchor, gold-panning dishes.
"I thought it was pretty cool because a lot of people might not bother at all," Hansen said. "I guess fishing isn't about what you catch, it's about the stories you have."
http://www.sacbee.com/fishing_hunting/stor...Fishing/Hunting
