MORGANZA — Deputies with the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office identified a body that was recovered near the Morganza Spillway on Friday night after a man was reported missing while fishing in the area. 

According to the sheriff's office, reports of a missing man who had been bank fishing came in around 8 p.m., with search and rescue recovering a body from the area around 9:45 p.m.

The body was later identified as 62-year-old Todd Hendricks of Fordoche. 

The circumstances surrounding his death remain under investigation.