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Search on for missing swimmer after body of Mich. angler found

Midday update

Corey Williams
Associated Press

DETROIT - The body of a fisherman was found Monday morning in Lake Erie as search teams worked to recover the body of another man last seen swimming near Turtle Island a day earlier.
An angler found the body of 41-year-old Gregory Zentgraf about 7 a.m. Monday two miles from the mouth of Monroe County's River Raisin.
Zentgraf of Flat Rock was reported missing Friday when the fishing boat he and his future brother-in-law, Devon Boik, were in began to take on water during a storm. They were about three miles from shore near Bolles Harbor.
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"I really don't think they checked the weather," Monroe County sheriff's marine division Capt. MaryAnne Ortman said. "It seemed they were bound and determined to get out and fish. They threw their fishing lines in and realized it was getting rough."
Ortman said Zentgraf and Boik put on life jackets and jumped into the water before the 18-foot boat capsized. Boik told rescuers that Zentgraf began to panic.
"As he was flailing, the padding began to come out of his jacket," Ortman said. "He kind of just pushed off (from Boik) and went down."
Boik of Newport was rescued about 7 p.m. Friday.
Teams from Monroe County, the U.S. Coast Guard and Toledo, Ohio-area fire departments were preparing to search the lake for both Zentgraf and Sunday's victim when Zentgraf's body was found.
The second man, James Carter, 44, of Toledo was on a boat with his wife and a 12-year-old girl about 2:30 p.m. Sunday near Turtle Island when they decided to swim 60 yards to shore, Ortman said.
They were swimming against the wind, and Carter, who was wearing jeans, began to struggle in the 15-feet-deep water. His wife and the girl saw him go under, Ortman said.
Two people in the area on personal watercraft pulled Carter's wife and the girl from the water, said Capt. Howard Rudes of the Washington Township, Ohio, fire department.
Neither Ortman nor Rudes were sure if the girl was the couple's daughter.
Boats and helicopters searched the area near the Michigan-Ohio state line until 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Ortman said the water temperature over the weekend was in the low 60s.