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passing out cards, dumping a bucket of bobbers marked with
letters and numbers overboard and fi shing them out with a dip
net.
He is the offi cial photographer for the voyages, posting stills
and videos on social media. He took one step too far back one
day and fell off the dock while taking a photo of residents from
a West Point retirement home and volunteers. He was trying
to make sure he got all 12 people in after realizing their ages
added up to 1,137, a record. Other records include the longest
married couple (73 years) and the longest serving veteran (41
years).
The Seniors
One of the fi rst groups to join them on Lake Wanahoo was
from Saunders Medical Center Long Term Care in Wahoo.
They have been with them ever since.
"I could sit here all day," Joyce McIntosh, a resident of the
center, said on an outing last summer. "It's just peaceful. I
forget about the whole world … Who would want anything
more?"
On that day, Shirley Schoenrock did, "I can't catch the
bugger," she said, annoyed by the small fi sh nipping at her
baited hook hanging below the boat.
David Rudder, founder and head of Live Well. Go Fish., takes a photo of Joyce McIntosh, a resident of
Saunders Medical Center Long Term Care in Wahoo, and the bullhead she caught during an outing at Lake Wanahoo.
