RedactedNarrative: ON SEPTEMBER 27 2021, I OFFICER WITH NC WILDLIFE RECEIVED A CALL IN REFERENCE TO A VESSEL INCIDENT INVOLVING PROPERTY DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED THE DAY BEFORE.  UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION VESSEL ONE, A 16 FOOT CAROLINA SKIFF OPERATED BY V1 OPERATOR, WAS RECREATIONALLY FISHING UNDER THE OAK ISLAND HWY 133 BRIDGE.  VESSEL ONE WAS NOT AT ANCHOR AND WAS OUTSIDE THE MAIN CHANNEL OF THE BRUNSWICK INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY.  VESSEL ONE WAS FACING WEST TOWARDS SOUTH CAROLINA WHILE UNDERWAY WITH HIS TROLLING MOTOR HOLDING HIM STEADY UNDER THE BRIDGE.  VESSEL ONE WAS BETWEEN THE SHORELINE AND THE BRIDGE PILING CLOSEST TO OAK ISLAND.  VESSEL ONE STATED THAT VESSEL TWO APPROACHED FROM HIS STERN AND PASSED BY HIM ON THE LEFT WITHIN THREE FEET THROWING A WAKE.  VESSEL ONE STATED THE WAKE CAUSED HIS VESSEL TO HIT THE PILING WALL OF THE BRIDGE CAUSING GEL COAT DAMAGE, STRESS FRACTURES AND THE LOSE OF FISHING EQUIPMENT.  VESSEL ONE STATED THAT VESSEL TWO DID NOT SLOW DOWN AND WAS PLOWING FROM CRAB POT TO CRAB POT.  VESSEL TWO, A 21 FOOT CAROLINA SKIFF, STATED THAT HE WAS NOT GOING FAST ENOUGH TO CAUSE DAMAGE AND THAT VESSEL ONE WAS WAKED OUT BY A LARGER CABIN CRUISER IN THE ACTUAL CHANNEL.  VESSEL TWO STATED THAT DUE TO THE CURVE OF THE BRIDGE PILING WALL, VESSEL ONE WAS CONCEALED TO VESSEL TWO AND THUS MAINTAINED SPEED AND COURSE.  VESSEL DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT $2100.  VESSEL TWO WAS CHARGED WITH CARLESS AND RECKLESS OPERATION NC G.S. 75A-10.  END OF REPORT.