RedactedNarrative: On 03-13-20, at approx. 1330 hrs, Troop was contacted to assist with a missing person report. Cherokee County Deputies located a vehicle owned by the missing person parked off of Boathouse Lane Road in the Big Hollow area. The subject was reported missing by his step-mother and father. The reporting parties told Cherokee County Deputies that Missing Person had gone fishing on his Kayak the previous day (03-12-20) and that he did not return home that evening or show up for work the next day.
  
    Troop personnel conducted a search for the Operator and the Vessel on Tenkiller lake. Vessel #1 was located at approx. 1730 hrs, capsized, in the Deepwell Cove area approx. 2.3 mile south of Big Hollow Cove. The search continued and at approx. 1805 hrs, a Kayak paddle was located approx 0.75 mile West of Vessel #1 location on the South shoreline.  The Operator of Vessel #1 was located at approx. 1815 hrs, 1 mile West of Vessel #1 and 2.75 mile Southwest of Big Hollow Cove on the South shoreline.  When Operator #1 was located he was wearing a PFD.