Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers on Tuesday recovered a body from Skaguay Reservoir that was possibly connected to a search for a missing fisherman.
Around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Teller County Sheriff’s Office was notified a body had been found in Skaguay Reservoir and deputies worked with wildlife officers to recover the victim, according to a social media statement from the sheriff’s office.
The wildlife agency did not confirm the body recovered was the missing fisherman and is waiting for the Teller County coroner to identify the victim, according to a CPW news release.
The search for the fisherman started on May 25 after the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office notified CPW that a 76-year-old Cañon City man had been reported missing, the release stated.
The man was last seen on May 23 and was believed to have gone fishing at Skaguay Reservoir, in a 715-acre state wildlife area located about 5 miles southeast of Victor in Teller County, CPW officials said in the release.
Search teams found the man’s vehicle and boat trailer at the reservoir, as well as a boat and life jacket floating in the water but were unable to find a body during nearly two weeks of off-and-on searches, the release stated.
CPW’s Marine Evidence Recovery Team was called in to help locate the man, but heavy vegetation on the bottom of the 40-foot-deep reservoir obscured sonar imaging.
The Teller County Coroner’s Office will identify the victim, make an official determination of the cause of death and notify the victim’s relatives.
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