(Porter County, IN) - The body of a missing fisherman has been recovered from Lake Michigan.
According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 67 year old Michael Barnes of Valparaiso was fishing from shore but the boat he brought had drifted from the shoreline.
He went into the water to try and retrieve it but went below the water’s surface about 60 yards from the shoreline near Burns Ditch, DNR said.
This happened about 11:30 a.m. on Monday. The recovery of his body was made about 90 minutes later during a search involving multiple agencies.
