Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Clarendon County Coroner Samuels says a man drowned during a fishing trip around 9:30pm Friday night on Lake Marion.
Samuels says 48-year old Frank Fisher Jr of Ellabell, GA was with four other people on an 18 foot Wellcraft when the water began to swell. Samuels said waves overtook the boat and it capsized.
According to authorities, three of the people on the boat were able to swim to a buoy and another person was able to swim to a guard shack and call for help.
Berkeley and Clarendon County DNR found Fisher's body around 11:50pm near Randolph's Landing at Santee Dam.