RedactedNarrative: On 6/1/2021 at approximately 11:45 AM, I, Conservation Police Officer (CPO) received a call reference a missing kayaker on the Vermilion River in Oglesby.  A fisherman located an unoccupied flipped kayak approximately 1.5 miles downstream from the Oglesby Canoe Launch. The owner of the kayak reportedly began his kayak journey from Lowell, IL at approximately 5:00 AM. CPO responded and began a search upstream from the launch.  At approximately 12:53 PM CPOs located the kayak operator wearing his life jacket and floating in the river approximately 400 yards downstream of the low head dam from where he was ejected from his kayak.  He was deceased.  He was an inexperienced kayak operator (6-12 months) and the Vermilion River waters are hazardous due to current and the low head dam. The LaSalle County Coroner''s Office ruled the death a drowning.