Glacier County Sheriff’s deputies recovered the body of 63-year-old Kazuhiko Hayashizaki, a resident of Alberta Canada, from Mission Lake Tuesday.
He and two other people, a 56-year-old Canadian man and a 75-year-old woman from Japan, failed to return home from a fishing trip to on Sunday.
Deputies located the vehicle they were using. The search began Monday, but was called off because of bad weather. The man’s body was found Tuesday morning.
Officers say the three either went through the ice or were blown into open water by Saturday’s high winds, which gusted up to 55 miles an hour. Blackfeet Tribal law enforcement and the Flathead county Sheriff’s department are assisting in the search, with divers and sonar equipment.