WILLOW LAKE, S.D. (KFGO KWAT) – A man has drowned while ice fishing on a lake in Clark County.
Sheriff Robert McGraw says authorities were called to Dry Lake #2, about four miles north of the town of Willow Lake, Wednesday morning on a report of a man who’d gone fishing there Tuesday night, but never returned home.
McGraw says there was a large area of open water on the north end of the lake, where debris was found floating, and that’s where divers concentrated their search. A remote camera was used to find the man’s snowmobile, and about 6 p.m. Wednesday, the man’s body was recovered.
McGraw says the victim is from the Hitchcock area, and was in his 60’s. His body was taken to a funeral home in Clark. His name has not been released.
McGraw says it appears the man became disoriented in foggy conditions and drove the snowmobile into open water.
