Final report released this week on the FLW boat accident that resulted drowning

[WB Staff]

Nik Kayler, the fishing tournament competitor tossed into Lake Okeechobee in January, drowned when a rogue wave swamped his boat and threw him overboard, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a final report obtained Wednesday by The Palm Beach Post

Partner Bill Kisiah himself was thrown into the frigid waters and tried to save Kayler but was forced to struggle back on board and hours later, staggered ashore, freezing and exhausted, the report said.

Six days earlier, at 7 a.m. Jan. 4, Kayler, of Apopka, and Kisiah, 51, from Slidell, La., who’d been randomly paired, had left a ramp at Okeechobee. It was the first day of the Fishing League Worldwide’s three-day Costa Series tournament.

Read the rest: https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/lo ... uvbaQMnzK/

[Jeff C.]

Very strange that the article doesn’t even mention if the drowned fisherman was wearing a PFD.

[WB Staff]

There is some info on the vest in this thread, including the photo of them at blast off...

http://www.westernbass.com/forum/flw-an ... 12473.html

[drew]

I still wonder if the big motor would not start because the lanyard/ kill switch was pulled. He tied himself to the TM with the lanyard.