Received phone call from edgecombe county so deputy that they were in search of a missing person that was fishing on new bold pond, a nc wildlife fishing pond located on shiloh farm rd in edgecombe county.  Deputy informed me that they were in need of a boat to search the pond.  I received that call on 12/26/11 at 6:50pm.  I arrived at the scene at approximately 7:35pm and immediately put my boat on the water.  Myself, deputy and a local emt started searching the pond and within 5 minutes found the subject's boat.  When we approached the boat we could see that he had out a few fishing poles on rod holders.  As we got closer you couldn't see anyone in the boat, but you could see that the boat was leaning a little bit to one side.  We pulled to the side of the boat and could see some clothing caught on a rod holder on the opposite side of the boat.  I then got into the boat and could see the subject's body in the water.  We were close to the edge of the pond, so we pulled the subject's body to shore and pulled his body from the water and put him in the bow of his boat and towed him to shore where emt took possession of his body.

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The cause of this accident is unknown, the cause of the subject falling overboard is also unknown.

PRINCEVILLE                   