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GRENADA, Miss. (WMC) - A day that was supposed to be for catching fish but instead became fishing for dogs!

Bob Gist of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and his friend Brad Carlisle of Covington, Tennessee, decided they would meet in Memphis and travel to Grenada Lake for quick fish trip.

The two met up with a local fishing guide, Jordan Chrestman, and started their what turned out to be an adventurous day.

Gist said they hadn’t been on the lake very long when Jordan noticed something in the water; it turned out to be dogs... a lot of dogs!

When they got close, the crew discovered dozens of hound dogs, all wearing expensive radio collars and white paint on them, treading water. The dogs were at least a mile offshore and said the way their heads were in the water there’s no way they could see the shore and seemed to be lost.

Chrestman pulled the boat up to each dog, and Gist and Carlisle loaded them one at a time into the boat. The crew filled the boat with dogs, went to shore and back for a second load, and on third load, the crew got some additional help from a man with a GPS tracker and were able to rescue more. A total of 38 dogs were rescued.

The dogs were a part of a fox hunt that day in Grenada and had chased after a deer that went into the lake.

The crew said with the help of his fishing guide noticing the dogs, they would have kept on bobbing for fish.

He said the dogs had been treading water for at least 45 minutes to an hour.

Gist said the dog owners tried to give the crew money for saving their dogs, but they turned it down, saying they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. They did what they had to do and jumped into rescue mode.

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