(Wasco, OR) -- A fisherman drowned in the John Day River over the holiday weekend. The Gilliam County Sheriff's Office reports it received a 9-1-1 text message that a person was lost in the river near Cottonwood State Park. Another text 15 minutes later stated the man's family located him and they were driving him to meet first responders. The 28-year-old Portland man had been underwater about ten minutes. Attempts to revive the man were unsuccessful.