Victim was on the water hunting. He got on the water at approx. 0410. At about 0530 he moved from the bull rushes he was in, to open water to set his decoys. He heard a boat coming and had his navigation lights on. The other boat came around the bull rushes at a high rate of speed, and came within 5 feet of his boat. The wake from the second boat caused his boat to capsize. He was wearing his life jacket at the time. When he came up, he was under his overturned boat. He had to take his life jacket off in order to swim out from under the boat since he had a blind on his boat that was now hanging down in the water, trapping him under his boat. He swam out, was able to climb on his overturned boat and started calling for help. Another hunter on the lake eventually heard him, was able to get the victim into his boat and called 911. He got the victim to shore about 0744, where he was loaded into an ambulance and brought to the hospital. The victim was unable to give a description of the boat that caused the capsizing except to say it was about 16 feet long with a white motor. Authorities retrieved the victim's overturned boat and gear and brought it back to the boat access and on the victim's trailer.
St. Michael