60-year-old Tennessee man found dead after fishing on Kentucky Lake

A 60-year-old Tennessee man died Sunday while fishing on Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers responded to a call about an unoccupied boat on Kentucky Lake at approximately 11:15 a.m. Sunday.

A fishing boat owned by Daniel E. Keeling of Humboldt, Tennessee, was found without occupants near the West Sandy portion of Kentucky Lake.

Wildlife officers searched for the missing boater in the vicinity of the unoccupied boat. The body was recovered a few hours later.

Keeling was not wearing a life jacket. Local agencies assisting were the Henry County Sheriff's Department and the Henry County Rescue Squad.

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It was the second boating-related fatality in Tennessee in three days and 10th this year.

Ronnie D. Gholston of Whitwell was found dead Friday on Nickajack Lake, where he had been bowfishing with friends when their boat started to take on water..

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