Man dies while fishing at Long Pond

By Nick Sambides
BDN Staff

TOWNSHIP A, Range 11, Maine — A Dover-Foxcroft man died after falling from a canoe into the water while fishing on Saturday on Long Pond, officials said Monday.

Kevin Pullyard, 52, was standing alone in the canoe when three friends on shore saw him fall over into the water and then called 911. He was wearing a flotation device, Maine Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald said in a brief statement.

His friends raced to another campsite, where they found another watercraft, boarded it and went to the floating Pullyard. They pulled him from the water. Attempts to revive Pullyard were unsuccessful, MacDonald said.

When a Millinocket Fire Department ambulance arrived, the emergency responders found that Pullyard was dead, Millinocket Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Malcolm said.

Pullyard was staying at a camp with his friends and had gone fishing for the weekend, MacDonald said.

Warden Service Cpl. Andy Glidden is handling the investigation of Pullyard’s death, Malcolm said. Glidden was off-duty on Monday and could not be reached for comment, officials at the warden’s service office in Augusta said.

Pullyard’s was the second body pulled from a body of Maine water over the weekend. A missing 4-year-old boy was found on Sunday in a man-made pond in the Ballard Road area of St. Albans.

Pullyard’s body was taken to Lamson Funeral Home in Millinocket, where it was due to be examined, MacDonald said.

“Since it was a witnessed event, I’m told an autopsy will not be done,” MacDonald said in an email.