Associated Press
 
November 2, 2009
 
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Authorities have called off weekend rescue operations for a fisherman swept down the Sandy River in Clackamas County.
 
The sheriff's department says 55-year-old Yevhen Savchenko is presumed drowned.
 
He and his 16-year-old son, Olexander, were trying to ford the river on Saturday in fishing waders when the current toppled them. The youth was able to rescue himself 300 yards downstream.
 
Search and rescue teams worked Saturday and Sunday, when they were helped by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
 
Sheriff's spokesman Jim Strovink says teams with dogs were to be deployed Monday in search of the body.