RedactedNarrative: BOAT#2 OPERATOR WAS JIG FISHING ON HIS SLOWLY DRIFTING BOAT. BOAT#1 OPERATOR WITH 2 PASSENGERS HAD BEEN FISHING DOWNSTREAM OF BOAT#2. AND BOAT#1 OPERATOR & COMPANIONS DECIDED TO LEAVE THE CONGESTED AREA OF ANCHORED FISHING BOATS AND HEAD UPSTREAM TOWARD THE BOAT LANDING. BOAT#1 SPED UP AFTER LEAVING THE AREA OF THE OTHER ANCHORED BOATS. THE BOAT SPEED MADE THE BOW GO HIGHER-RAISED, SO THE BOAT#1 OPERATOR COULD NOT SEE STRAIGHT AHEAD. THE BOAT#2 FISHING-OPERATOR NOTICED BOAT#1 COMING TOWARDS HIM, SO HE STOOD UP, WAIVED HIS ARMS TO GET BOAT#1 ATTENTION. BOAT#1 OPERATOR SAW BOAT#2 TOO LATE TO AVOID A COLLISION. BOAT#1 BOW STRUCK THE PORT STERN AREA OF BOAT#2 CAUSING BOAT#2 TO WHIP AROUND CAUSING BOAT#2 OPERATOR TO FALL OVERBOARD. BOAT#1 DID NOT ATTEMPT TO REACH OR RETREIVE BOAT#2 OPERATOR WHO STRUGGLED TO SWIM TO HIS DRIFTING BOAT. BOAT#1 WAS TAKING ON WATER SO THEY HEADED TO BEACH THEIR BOAT ON SHORE. BOAT#2 OPERATOR WAS LATER ASSISTED BY ANOTHER BOAT OPERATOR WHO TRANSPORTED BOAT#2 OPERATOR TO A LANDING WHERE EM STAFF WERE WAITING TO ASSIST. BOAT#2 OPERATOR WAS TREATED FOR SHOCK AND OBSERVED BY THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL PERSONNEL.
NameOfBodyOfWater: WISCONSIN RIVER
NearestCityTown: NEKOOSA                       