Body camera video shows missing fisherman’s rescue at Lake Tawakoni

Texas Game Wardens released video of a fisherman’s rescue at Lake Tawakoni. The man spent more than three hours in the water after being thrown from his boat.Lake Tawakoni boater rescuedThe rescue happened on Saturday morning during a local fishing tournament.Texas Game Wardens in Rains County said they got a call around 7:15 a.m. about a missing boater who had been thrown from his vessel after striking a stump in the lake.Search crews scoured the water for several hours before they spotted the man in the distance with binoculars.The video shows them pulling up to the tired fisherman."We got you. Hang on," the game wardens said. "Just watch it. We got you now."The man told the rescuers he was tired because he’d been in the water for almost four hours by that point.The Texas Game Wardens gave the man credit for using two pieces of safety equipment that helped to save his life – a life jacket and his boat’s emergency engine cutoff switch."Always wear a life jacket and use your engine cut