A fisherman on the Snake River in Hells Canyon found the remains last week of a Jerome man missing since Oct. 14.

Idaho County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Gorges told the Times-News Monday that the body of Ray Dean Leavitt, 64, was located Oct. 27.

Leavitt, 64, was in Hells Canyon along the Idaho-Oregon border when the boat Leavitt and Tom Blair, 50, were fishing from struck a rock. Both men were thrown into the water.

Blair resurfaced and swam back to the boat. Leavitt went under and did not come back up.

An Idaho Department of Fish and Game officer and a Nez Perce County Sheriff's deputy retrieved the body and took it to a Lewiston funeral home at the request of Leavitt's family.