Donovan Brink and Madison Temmel
The (Roseburg) News-Review
May 5 started out as just another Wednesday. Harry Burleigh kissed his wife of 40 years, Stacy, goodbye as he headed to Toketee Lake for an overnight fishing trip.
The plan was to spend the night at the lake, go chasing some German brown trout the following day and head back to the couple's Roseburg home. After all, Mother's Day was that coming Sunday and Stacy's birthday was the following Wednesday.
Fishing from a kayak the following morning, 69-year-old Harry Burleigh was having a little luck.
"I caught a couple of nice ones, kissed them on the snout and let them go," Harry Burleigh recalled.