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2 killed in boating accident on Wilson Lake NW Alabama
Posted on 6/10/19 at 9:28 am
Posted on 6/10/19 at 9:28 am
Happened Saturday night. Apparently a small boat collided with a cabin cruiser. Driver of small boat in critical condition and his female passenger and her 5 yo daughter died.
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Posted on 6/10/19 at 9:31 am to Bama Shadow
Very sad to hear
Posted on 6/10/19 at 9:53 am to Bama Shadow
That's a big, wide open lake. Not sure how you could hit anyone on that lake?
Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:02 am to Aubie Spr96
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That's a big, wide open lake. Not sure how you could hit anyone on that lake?
I agree but where this happened was in Shoals Creek between the 72 bridge and the mouth. There is a marina there and a few side creeks. That area is still pretty wide but maybe they were coming out of a creek or something. I know a guy I use to work with hit a barge one night like that (albeit he was pretty drunk) and it was on Wilson as well. He came out of a creek and never saw the barge he said.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:16 am to Bama Shadow
Maybe I'm a lunatic but when I'm running at night I'm using a spotlight. Even if I have to hold it by hand.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 8:00 pm to Sofa King Crimson
Yea same I was camping on the ms river one weekend doing some catfishing and drinking with the guys and had to rush out middle of the night due to a bad storm.
Spotlight probably kept us from dying trying to outrun that storm back to the oxbow lake landing connected to the river where we put in. About a 20 mile run, middle of pitch black night drunk as hell. Only light was our handheld and the light from a barge spotlight way in the distance
Spotlight probably kept us from dying trying to outrun that storm back to the oxbow lake landing connected to the river where we put in. About a 20 mile run, middle of pitch black night drunk as hell. Only light was our handheld and the light from a barge spotlight way in the distance
Posted on 6/10/19 at 8:11 pm to Bama Shadow
I know a couple of guys that were in a bass boat on Wilson one night, several years ago, a big cabin cruiser came close to them fast and flipped their boat. They were wearing life jackets and spent all night floating.
One of them had his back broken and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. He got addicted to his pain medication and that actually killed him, a couple of years ago.
One of them had his back broken and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. He got addicted to his pain medication and that actually killed him, a couple of years ago.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 9:46 pm to auggie
That's one of the main reasons I always preferred to fish Pickwick. Wilson is wide and deep but not very long. Gets very crowded on weekends with all the pleasure boats. I have been out there in Stinson Hollow a few nights where big cruisers would come down the creek with no lights and throwing huge wakes.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:28 pm to Bama Shadow
Happened at the mouth of Shoals Creek. If I'm not mistaken that entire area is a no wake zone.
Not sure how this happened.
Not sure how this happened.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:40 pm to MrLarson
It always amazes me there aren't more deaths in the lakes around here. People do a lot of dipshit things by the dams, no telling what all they do in the rest of the lake.
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Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:00 pm to Dam Guide
No doubt
Lower side of Wilson is where those country music brothers died a few years ago. All spillways open and they decide to go fishing close to the dam.
I don't think people understand how powerful the dams are on the Tennesse river. Wilson has the highest lock east of the Mississippi, 130'(IIRC)
Back about 20 years ago we were hosting a distributor weekend and I took some guys from the Carolinas out to Wilson and they walked around for hours amazed at the dam. Most people don't realize what Wilson, Wheeler and Pickwick are. Great works.
Taken from the Colbert side while Wilson was under construction.
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Lower side of Wilson is where those country music brothers died a few years ago. All spillways open and they decide to go fishing close to the dam.
I don't think people understand how powerful the dams are on the Tennesse river. Wilson has the highest lock east of the Mississippi, 130'(IIRC)
Back about 20 years ago we were hosting a distributor weekend and I took some guys from the Carolinas out to Wilson and they walked around for hours amazed at the dam. Most people don't realize what Wilson, Wheeler and Pickwick are. Great works.
Taken from the Colbert side while Wilson was under construction.
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Current
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 2:20 am
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