Woman catches prosthetic leg while fishing

Three years after a Morris woman lost her prosthetic leg on Lake Ida, a Wisconsin woman fished it out and returned it. Beth Krohn went fishing while at her lake home on Lake Ida. She was out on the lake for about an hour when she felt a snag, but when she started to reel in her line, she quickly began to realize she caught something and it wasn’t a fish.

“It kept coming up and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh!’” Krohn said. “I hope it’s not a dead body. We got it up and it was a prosthetic leg.” Pam Riley is from Morris, but she also has a lake home on Lake Ida. She lost her prosthetic leg three years ago while swimming. She never thought anyone would find it, but always laughed about “what if?”.



“What would anybody think when they see a part of a leg,” leg owner Pam Riley said. “They probably wondered where the rest of the body was.” After Beth caught the keeper that morning, she called a few places in Alexandria hoping to find its rightful owner. She ended up calling Advanced O and P in Alexandria; turns out she reeled in the leg right in the nick of time.

“We told (the receptionist) we found this prosthetic leg,” Krohn said. “She started laughing and said she was going to put me on hold. She said the lady who lost was there in the office and she wanted to talk to me.” Krohn and Riley met up later that day in the Walmart parking lot in Alexandria to exchange stories and body parts. Krohn said she will tell this story for years to come because even though her catch wasn’t one for the wall, she said it was definitely a keeper.

With news video.