RedactedNarrative: On July 18th, 2020, at approximately 18:00 hrs, game warden received a call from LT about a boat accident on Clinton lake that had just occurred. Warden then called the park manager and was told a fishing boat had capsized and that all occupants were safely on shore. 
  
  However the vessel was still floating upside down somewhere on the lake. Warden responded to Clinton lake and make contact. The officers took a patrol boat towards the Bloomington public use area where the accident occurred. The officers made contact with a state park vessel who had found the capsized vessel and were standing by. 
  
  Warden attempted to motor his vessel up to the capsized vessel but high winds and shallow water made it difficult to reach with the Boston Whaler patrol boat. The capsized vessel was floating upside down in two feet of water about 20 feet from the rocky shore. The capsized vessel was not moving and appeared to be stuck on something. Warden was unable to get his vessel close enough to get a rope on the capsized vessel so the state park boat attempted to get to it.
  
   The state park boat was a smaller aluminum boat and was able to get a tow rope attached to the d ring on the front of the capsized vessel. The state park vessel started to slowly tow the capsized vessel in reverse. The plan was to tow the vessel to the nearest boat ramp but the cove the vessel was in was very shallow and the state park vessel got stuck in shallow water. The state park vessel untied the tow rope and Warden was able to get close enough for them to throw the rope to him. The officers secured the rope to a cleat in the Whaler patrol boat and Warden was able to tow the capsized vessel into deeper water and then head for the boat ramp where the owner was waiting. 
  
  Without the capsized vessel attached to them, the state park vessel was able to get un stuck and return to the boat ramp. Warden was able to get the capsized vessel back to the boat ramp and secured to the boat dock. 
  
  Warden then met with the boat''s owner, who was also the operator at the time of the accident. Warden photographed the id and then returned it to Operator. Warden then got some more personal information from Operator. Warden then asked Operator what happened. 
  
  Operator said he was just drifting with the wind, not under power. Operator said it was just him and his dog on the vessel. Operator said the wind was strong and there were large waves hitting the boat. Operator said the boat seemed to be getting lower and lower in the water. Operator said he believed the vessel was taking on water from fiberglass damage on the bottom of the hull from when he had scrapped a rocky bottom at an earlier date. 
  
  Warden could see the fiberglass damage on the hull, it was not all the way through the hull but may have been letting in water. Operator said eventually the vessel got low enough in the water that the waves started to crash over and into the boat. Operator said at this time he started to gather life jackets and then him and his dog jumped out of the vessel.
  
   Operator said after the vessel flipped over he swam back to it and lifted his dog up onto the overturned vessel while he held onto it for floatation. Operator said his friends then saw him and picked him up in their boat. Operator then hooked a chain to the capsized vessel and drug the boat as far up the boat ramp as he could. Then Operator removed the drain plug which released the trapped air in the capsized vessel. Then by using a hydrallic jack the boat was lifted on one side as high as it would go. Then several people got in the water to try to turn the boat over. They tied two ropes to cleats in the boat and then the officers pulled on the ropes from the other boat dock while those in the water lifted. The boat was righted and then the owner was able to trailer it....