FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Two young anglers competing in a high school fishing tournament rescued two other competitors whose boat was sinking on a lake in northwest Alabama.
Sardis High School 10th graders Garrett Howington and Isaac Darden are being called heroes for their actions during an Alabama Student Angler Bass Fishing Association tournament at Pickwick Lake.
Howington and Darden were fishing on Saturday when they heard another fishing team calling for help. They tell the TimesDaily of Florence that the back of the other boat was filling up with water.
They got close to the sinking boat and helped two students and an adult from Arab High School to safety. No one was injured.
Kevin Walls, the coach of the fishing team at Arab High School, says a boat malfunction caused the vessel to sink.
