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Went out with my Dad and brother. Set lines at 6:15 starting in 70 fow and trolling SW. We went 3 for 3. Picked up a small king, 12in, on a 7 color on chips orange shanster stingray, released. Later we had a 5# king on Monkey puke stingray on a downrigger set 50 ft down. Last one was caught on a dipsy 125ft back on a 2 setting pulling a Freakin veggie magnum, 7# king. Pulled lines at 9:40. It was a good night- all returned safely, fish in the box, and a Blackhawks Win!!

Heard on the radio a fisherman was lost overboard in Port Sheldon in the morning and the seach was still going on. Person still missing and presumed drown. My condolences to the family.

BE SAFE OUT THERE

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Heard on the radio a fisherman was lost overboard in Port Sheldon in the morning and the seach was still going on. Person still missing and presumed drown. My condolences to the family.

BE SAFE OUT THERE

NEAR PORT SHELDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The search for the body of a 55-year-old Zeeland man who investigators said fell out of a boat and into Lake Michigan Saturday afternoon is scheduled to resume Sunday morning.

Ottawa County sheriff's deputies are calling the incident a drowning.

Thomas Anzivino fell out of the boat around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and the sheriff's department, at least two miles from the shoreline near Port Sheldon Township.

Sheriff's deputies took over the search from the U.S. Coast Guard midafternoon after the mission turned from rescue to recovery. At about 4:30 p.m., 24 Hour News 8 saw sheriff's dive team boats heading into Lake Michigan from a launch on Pigeon Lake. The dive team was using sonar to try and locate Anzivino.

Investigators said they do not know why he fell out of what the Coast Guard described as a 28-foot boat.

Anzivino's 24-year-old daughter was on the boat sunbathing at the time, according to investigators. She heard a splash, they said, and went in after her father. Then she came back to the boat for supplies to help rescue her father.

"She made it back to the boat, went to get a lifejacket ... and by the time she came back with that, he was gone," Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Keith Koeman told 24 Hour News 8.

The 55-year-old was "reportedly not wearing a personal flotation device" when he fell into the water, according to a Coast Guard press release.

HIs daughter was able to draw the attention of other boaters, who aided in the search along with the sheriff's marine patrol and Coast Guard teams from Grand Haven and Holland. A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Waukegan, Ill., north of Chicago, also assisted in the search.

The Sunday search will include help from Norton Shores and a Kent County team with a robot that could help in the effort, Koeman said.

While the law does not require it, the Coast Guard "recommends boaters wear their [personal flotation devices] at all times when boating," according to a release. "It is much more difficult to locate, access or don a PFD at the moment an accident occurs," the release stated.

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