Some of you may know of Ed Carlson from the various forums.

MOORHEAD – A Moorhead man who died in an apparent drowning accident while fishing was remembered by his children Monday as a good father who followed his passion in life and had a knack for knowing where the fish were hiding.

The body of 49-year-old Edwin Carlson, known in regional fishing circles as “Backwater Eddy” or “Ed on the Red,” was recovered Sunday from Wolverton Creek about nine miles south of Moorhead.

He died doing what he loved most, according to his children.

“That’s basically his entire life is fishing, his passion,” said Alysha Carlson, 20, of Fargo, the youngest of the three children.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office responded at 5:40 p.m. to the 12000 block of Third Street South after neighbors who were driving by reported seeing Carlson’s white van parked along the road at a bridge where he’d fished many times, Sheriff Bill Bergquist said.

The van was open with the windows down and radio playing, but Carlson wasn’t nearby. After a downpour, the neighbors returned to look for Carlson but couldn’t find him, so they called authorities, Bergquist said.

A Sabin Fire Department search boat crew found his body about one-eighth of a mile from the bridge over Wolverton Creek, which empties into the Red River.

A lot of Carlson’s footprints had been washed away. But there was some mud on the edge of a concrete bridge culvert where Carlson apparently had been standing, and it “looked like he maybe slipped in,” Bergquist said.

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Be careful out there.