Lifeboat sent to help anglers in distress found men over excited about catching a mackerel

A lifeboat turned up to rescue a group of men they believed to be in distress to find them all celebrating catching a mackerel.

The four anglers were celebrating catching the fish at Black Rock near Portree Harbour off the Isle of Skye, Scotland, when crews received a number of calls from concerned coastal residents.



Portree Lifeboat was launched on Sunday and found the group on a fully-working dinghy celebrating their latest catch. A spokesman for the crew said: "The call was made in good faith when somebody saw the group getting very excited. They were shouting and screaming. We arrived and they asked us 'what are you doing? We're only catching mackerel'.

"There was a few calls about the dingy out at Black Rock and we thought they had been caught out by the tide but the boat was fully working and they were just really happy." A spokesman for the Stornoway Coastguard added: "Portree Lifeboat went out on Sunday after various calls. They were fishing, shouting jubilations and not in distress."