Fishermen saw a man floating in the Niagara River and rushed to save him from drowning.

Michael Avery was a few dozen feet away from where a man jumped into the Niagara River Monday morning.

"I heard a big splash," he said about a man who "was out in the middle of the water floating."

The unidentified man jumped into the Niagara River near the Foot of Ferry.

"I wasn't going to let it happen on my watch man, I had that rope," said Avery. "As big as I am, we kept going as long as the guy kept praying and as long as he was above the water. I wasn't going to stop."

Avery is known as Buffalo Perch Killer on YouTube. He is an avid fisherman.

On the video he captured while joining two other men to save a man from the water, you could hear Avery running out of breath. The men ran about a mile to the International Bridge, where the man was eventually rescued.

The water was cold and the current took control of the man as he was floating.

"I dropped my pole, grabbed that rope, and we just started chasing the guy," said Avery.

"I have no idea how he survived. When we got him out, he was motionless, his clothes were off, and his pants were at his ankles," according to the fisherman.

Avery considers himself a river rat. He said he cried like a baby when the man was eventually saved.