Police search for missing angler

News Release
O.P.P.

On Monday Members of the Kenora OPP Marine Unit were searching the waters of Lake of the Woods in the area of Poplar Island and Firebag Island for a missing fisherman.
Shortly before 10:00pm on Saturday September 18, 2004, police were advised that 32 year old, Jimmy Olson, of Sleeman, had gone missing from a boat while returning from Oak Island to Morson.
Police were advised that the man had been sitting at the back of a 17’ Crestliner boat with three other people in it, in very rough water when he went missing. The man was not wearing a life jacket or a PFD at the time.
Members of the OPP marine unit, volunteer searchers, are continuing to search the area where the man went missing.