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The body of a man who is reported to have drowned on Sunday morning on Vernon Lake just west of Leesville has been recovered. Officers with the Vernon Parish Sheriff's Department say the search began at around 9:30, when emergency dispatchers received a report that the fisherman had fallen from a boat and drowned. The search which was organized by Sheriff Sam Craft and his deputies used the boat ramp on the southeast side of the lake, not far from the spillway as their base of operations and shortly after 4:00 pm it was reported that the body of the fisherman had been recovered. The identity of the drowning victim has not been released, pending formal notification of next of kin, but word is that the man was a resident of Rapides Parish.