No leads yet in search for missing duck hunter
Jesse Davis | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years AGO
The search for a duck hunter missing since Monday has yet to turn up any leads.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry initially reported that the 65-year-old Kalispell man’s overturned mint green kayak and yellow paddle were recovered from the Flathead River just south of Sportsman’s Bridge on Montana 82 early Monday afternoon.
The kayak was traced back to the man, whose vehicle was found at the nearby fishing access. It was determined that he had gone duck hunting along the river that morning.
Since then, deputies and search-and-rescue personnel have been combing the area from the water, ground and air using boats, bloodhounds, a helicopter, side-scan sonar and divers.
Curry said Thursday that as of early afternoon, the man had still not been located.
“We’ve worked the river pretty much from the lake up to where he was,” Curry said.
“We have developed no targets with our equipment. However, we have deployed divers on a couple spots that looked weird and a couple of holes we couldn’t see into well with side scan.”
Anyone who may have seen the hunter in his kayak Monday morning is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 758-5610.