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One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - submoa - 06-23-2009
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Did anyone see this on the news this morning? Hope he defies all odds and is okay. I've never put my boat on UL because of these kinds of issues. Lake has me too nervous. I didn't even have wind at my house.
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - waljustia - 06-23-2009
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - Out4Trout - 06-23-2009
That really sucks. It sucks no matter who it happened to, but I hope it wasn't any BFT'rs...
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - boulder - 06-23-2009
That sucks, but have you seen some of the boats and how many people are stuffed on them that go out onto Utah Lake, just this year I have towed 2 boats back to Provo that had NO business being out there
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Re: [boulder] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - wiper_junkie - 06-24-2009
I know what you mean..... I was down at Sand Hollow a few weeks back, and the wind was blowing 20 mph easy. As I was pulling out this guy was preparing to leave the dock in one of those small green Coleman boats with his wife and young boy in it! I thought for sure that I'd be reading about it in the paper the next day. Hopefully the missing guy at UL turns up okay. Fred K.
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - Ponchik - 06-24-2009
I tried to keep up with this story, but never heard whether they found the last guy, anyone know?
KSL mentioned that crews were pretty confident that they would find him safely, but I have not heard.
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - kochanut - 06-24-2009
how the hell would someone swim in UT Lake for 3 hours? is that place really that big? sorry for the newbie question, but in all my years in UT living, and passing through, i have never fished it.
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Re: [kochanut] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - walleyebob - 06-24-2009
There were some real big waves going on. I was going to take my boat out, but I called my buddy that lives down that way and he said the wind was blowing pretty good.
People take way too many chances on Utah Lake. That boat had six guys in it. I'll bet anything that the boat was rated for about 700 pounds with motor, gear and people. It's one thing to overload a boat and go out on a deep protected lake. It's a whole different game when you go out on a big shallow open lake. Those waves can go from flat to four feet in a matter of minutes.
I've had about four real scary trips on Utah Lake. When the waves got big before I could get off.Once with a buddy in a tri-hull, and three times in my boat. My boat has a lot of battle wounds from encounters down there. I had my motor hit bottom once in eight feet, when I came down a wave into the trough. Very concerning to say the least.
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Re: [walleyebob] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - kochanut - 06-24-2009
ahhh i see now, so i take it you cant slip into a well protected cove, cept maybe the marina, like you could at the nell then? is that a correct assumption?
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Re: [kochanut] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - Kent - 06-24-2009
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how the hell would someone swim in UT Lake for 3 hours? is that place really that big? sorry for the newbie question, but in all my years in UT living, and passing through, i have never fished it.
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"By [url "http://www.deseretnews.com/site/staff/1,5231,3070,00.html"][#1c588c]Sara Lenz[/#1c588c][/url]
Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:07 a.m. MDT
PROVO — All Chans Mixayboua could think about as he was struggling to stay afloat after his boat capsized in Utah Lake was his family.
His legs cramped as he paddled for six hours Monday night, and the American Fork man said thoughts of his two daughters, ages 10 and 11, were what kept him going.
"At first, it was a struggle trying to get my head together," Mixayboua, 34, said through tear-filled eyes. "I kept telling myself my family needs me. I just couldn't give up."
Mixayboua and five other men went fishing on a boat Mixayboua and his brother-in-law, Joe Rajsavong, had bought earlier that morning. They were about halfway to what they called Sandy Beach near Springville when a big wave came over the front of the boat.
Mixayboua said they tried to get the water out of the boat, but the waves kept coming.
"It went so fast, we didn't really have time to think of what to do," he told the Deseret News from his hospital bed Tuesday.
After the boat sank, the waves continued and separated many of the men from each other.
Mixayboua found a 3-feet-by-1-foot seat cushion that helped keep him afloat, as long as he kept paddling.
Although the men had nine life jackets on the boat, many of the jackets were in the cubby of the boat when it sank, he said.
Right after the boat was submerged, Mixayboua saw one of his friends, Keooudai "Dai" Sysasith, holding onto a life jacket that was still partly attached to the boat. Mixayboua swam back over to him and helped him get the jacket free.
Sysasith and Mixayboua then worked together to swim toward shore, but Sysasith was much faster than Mixayboua, so Mixayboua told him to go ahead and swim to shore for help.
Mixayboua continued to swim to the shore, which he said looked forever away, but he kept getting pushed back to the middle of the lake. He could still see Sysasith, and they would talk back and forth. Mixayboua said he also passed by another of his friends, Lon Thongthipvoravong, who wasn't moving very fast and was using a seat cushion to float, as well.
Late Tuesday, although five of the men had been found and were treated for hypothermia, searchers were still looking for Thongthipvoravong.
Mixayboua lost track of Thongthipvoravong, Sysasith and the shore as all traces of sunlight disappeared.
"It was so dark, I didn't know where to go," Mixayboua said. "I just kept telling myself, it's not my time. It gave me some strength."
He did lose hope for a little while and almost gave up, but around 10 p.m., Mixayboua said, he saw a helicopter flashing a light on some trees on one side of the lake, so he swam in that direction. He eventually reached the lights and was pulled up into a search and rescue boat around 11 p.m.
Once on the boat, he said, he couldn't walk and had to be carried to an area to lie down. He was then rushed to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where doctors said he would remain until at least today.
Mixayboua wanted to leave the hospital Tuesday to help search for his missing friend. But his doctors insisted that he stay in the hospital.
"It's hard to just sit here, but what can you do?" he said.
After going through this experience, Mixayboua said that before he ever gets on another boat, he will first make sure he is wearing a life jacket. He said he is grateful to be alive.
"I guess somebody up there wants me to keep living," he said.
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Re: [kochanut] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - submoa - 06-24-2009
UL is a huge lake Kochanut. Huge mud bowl that is shallow and dangerous. I've never put my boat in there for fear of ruining it. Every year it seems to take a life whether a duck hunter or a fisherman, both of which are passions of mine. Crankem told me a few stories of UL which litterally stopped me from fishing this lake.
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Re: [submoa] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - lov2fish - 06-24-2009
this is why i never fish with my toon out of peoples sight and then i have some guy asking if i wanted to go to birds isl with the toons.
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Re: [lov2fish] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - hollynkait - 06-24-2009
yea thats kind of weird that it happen just before 6 and no one seen them. I wonder how many people drove by them before they sank. We were out on willard when a storm hit and another boat was having trouble and we stopped, was a big boat, and we're in a fish and ski. He told us that all the bigger boats just drove by looking at them. We ended up towing him in.
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Re: [kentofnsl] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - addicted2fishin - 06-24-2009
I would like to request that people try to withold their critcism in these situations. They are already tough enough without people criticizing the ones that were on the boat. From the story I'm sure we can all find a few things they could have done better, but how often are we perfectly safe when we are out on our boats?
I happen to work with a family member of the one that is still missing. This is very, very difficult on the family. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. They are going through a very difficult time and could use all the support they can get, not the critical thoughts and posts from people trying to analyze and point out what they did wrong.
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Re: [addicted2fishin] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - fuzzyfisher - 06-24-2009
not to sound to critcizing, but pointing out what someone else might have done wrong might just save someone else form doing the same thing.[crazy]
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Re: [fuzzyfisher] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - walleyebob - 06-28-2009
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Re: [kentofnsl] One fisherman still missing after boat capsized on UL? - 4_luv_of_fishin - 06-28-2009
They found him this afternoon a mile from where they pulled the boat out unfortunatly the worst happened.
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