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Missing fisherman's body recovered from ETX lake, name released

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SMITH COUNTY, TX (KLTV) -

Crews have recovered the body of a fisherman who went missing on an East Texas lake Tuesday.

Crews searched Pleasure Acres Lake near Chapel Hill Tuesday evening and again Wednesday morning when they found the body, around 9:30 a.m.

According to authorities, the missing fisherman, 29-year-old, Justin Thore, was a homeless man who a couple had taken in and taught to fish. Tuesday was only his second time out on the water alone.

Smith County Sheriff's officials say the couple called them around 7:30 p.m., saying he had gone fishing several hours earlier and had not been seen since.

His body is being sent off for an autopsy.

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