Jared Maitino and his brother-in-law recently visited their favorite
fishing spot on the Chagrin River at Woodland Park in Eastlake, Ohio, a
place littered with deer. “We noticed it was frozen over. We didn’t
think it would be frozen over, because we had a few warm days, and we
looked down and we’re like ‘we can’t fish’,” Maitino said.
“As we were getting ready to leave, I noticed that there was a deer that
broke through the ice, and it was struggling to get out of the water,”
Maitino said. Jared quickly sprang into action. He raced back to his
truck, grabbed some ratchet straps and headed back toward the river.
Jared was wearing a Go Pro Camera, something he wears all the time when
fishing.
“I have a chest pack so whenever I hook a fish, I turn it on,” he said.
“I thought if I’m going to go down there and save this thing,
I might as well get it on film.” The
video from Jared’s camera shows him making a lasso with the ratchet
straps. “When I initially tossed it, it didn’t make it around both ears
like I thought it would so I just kind of pulled it a little bit
tighter. It cinched up and as it cinched up, I noticed that I could
actually get a good pull on the deer and I just started pulling,” he
said.
He pulled the deer out of the water and onto the shore. “I was just
hoping that it wasn’t going to come right at us, that’s the only thing I
wasn’t hoping for,” Maitino said. The deer ran off into the woods, and
Jared is being called a hero by his friends. “I don’t consider myself a
hero,” he said. “Everybody keeps saying you’re a hero, but if I would
have saved a human then I thought maybe I’d be more of a hero, but it
was still cool though.”
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