Alaska State Troopers say two Anchorage men are dead after their canoe overturned at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday while they were fishing in Johnson Lake on the Kenai Peninsula.

Victims, both 35, had been camping in the area. They'd paddled about 90 feet from the shore of the popular trout-fishing lake when they capsized.

They were not wearing life preservers, but had them in the canoe.

A 13-year-old boy fishing along the bank looked up to see the accident and dialed 911, according to Trooper. 

One man, who couldn't swim, immediately disappeared under the water. The other went under after a few moments. 

Neither man in the plastic, 15.5-foot canoe was wearing a life jacket.

The lake, stocked with trout by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is south of Kasilof off the Sterling Highway. Victims planned to meet friends there from Anchorage.

The bodies have been recovered and will be sent to the medical examiner for autopsy. 

The canoe overturned in an area where the lake is 10 or more feet deep, troopers estimated.

The deaths came on a busy recreational weekend at one of the state's older recreational areas.
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