MONROE — Snohomish County sheriff’s divers on Wednesday morning recovered the body of a man they believe to be missing fisherman Tiboe Emanoff.
The body was discovered trapped in the root ball of a tree in a stretch of river about one mile downstream from the Highway 522 bridge, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said. The man’s boat was found nearby last week.
The Everett man, 33, apparently put his 8-foot aluminum drift boat in the Skykomish River on June 3 at the Lewis Street boat launch in Monroe. He was supposed to meet a friend that evening at the Bob Heirman Wildlife Preserve along the Snohomish River to camp and go fishing. He never arrived.
On June 6, another friend called authorities to report Emanoff missing. A sheriff’s deputy found Emanoff’s truck and empty trailer at the Monroe boat launch later that same day.
A sheriff’s office helicopter has flown over the area many times since then looking for Emanoff and his boat, Hover said. Sheriff’s divers spotted the drift boat last week.
When divers checked out that area of the river this week, they found the man’s body nearby, Hover said.
The body has been turned over to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office to make a positive identification as well as determine official cause and manner of death.
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