Deadly fishing trip in Montana for Southern Alberta trio

A heavy winter storm has forced crews to scale back the search for two people from the Lethbridge area who went missing from Mission Lake in Montana.

The body of 63-year-old Kaz Hayashizaki was recovered Tuesday . His companions, 58-year-old Danny Heyland and 75-year-old Fuki Nishibayashi, are still missing.
Concerned family members contacted Picture Butte RCMP when the group failed to return from their trip on Sunday.
Friends of Hayashizaki, who played tennis table with him at the Norbridge Senior Center, say he went fishing almost every week-end. It was his second love, next to table tennis.
“We cannot comprehend how something like that could happen. He was such an expert and he had survival gear and everything in place,” says David Bergen with the Lethbridge Table Tennis club.
Hayashizaki and Nishibayashi met in 2005 and won silver in doubles table tennis at the Alberta Open Championship in 2011.

“They went to double tournaments together and over the years they had won a lot of awards together,” add Bergen

Nishibayashi taught Japanese at the University of Lethbridge from 1996 until her retirement in 2004.

Danny Heyland was an avid outdoorsman and was employed by southern Alberta family services, his family is too shaken up to speak about the tragedy on camera.