The Langlade County Sheriff's Department tells NewsChannel 7 the body of missing a kayaker has been found.
The body of 31-year-old Travis Groenewold of Green Lake was pulled from Post Lake on Saturday around 4:30 p.m.
He was last seen at a bar around midnight one week ago.
Last weekend, Groenewold and his wife retreated to their seasonal home on Post Lake in the small town of Elcho, about 30 miles north of Antigo.
According to the sheriff's interview with his wife, like many times before, rather than driving around the lake to reach a popular bar, Groenewold got into his kayak and paddled the few hundred feet to reach it by water. It was already 10 p.m.
The Twin Oaks Resort was the last known place he had been.
The bartender working that night says Groenewald was his usual self, did not seem to be down about anything, drank three or four beers, chatted with friends and then left around midnight, seemingly coherent.
But Groenewald never made it home.
His wife reported him missing to her neighbor the following morning, who did his own search and found the kayak and paddle, but nothing else.
Deputies were called, along with the Oneida County dive team and the DNR, which completed their own search on and under water.
The sheriff says "It's akin to finding a needle in a haystack. When you're searching a large body of water with no witnesses, no independent information to give a specific location, to pinpoint a location, it makes it very difficult."
The sheriff says if Groenewold had fallen in the water, he would have likely suffered hypothermia within a half hour. A water temperature reading Monday afternoon showed it's between 39 and 40 degrees.
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