JACKMAN — A search for three men reported overdue from a canoe trip in the Jackman area will begin at daylight Tuesday.

The warden service received information at about 4 p.m. Monday that the trio had not returned home Sunday as scheduled.

The missing men are identified as Jeff Martell, about 28, of Nottingham, N.H.; Todd Lindenstruth, 28, of Baltimore, a student at the University of New Hampshire; and Shawn Taudvin, 32, of Portland.

“We think they are doing the Bow Trip from Moose River,” said Sgt. Pat Dorian of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The Bow Trip is a 34-mile canoe trip along Attean Lake, Holeb Pond and Moose River.

A pilot who flew over the area at dusk located at the landing on Big Wood Pond a vehicle that is registered to one of the canoeists.

Dorian believes that the party is stranded in the area where Moose River flows into Big Wood Pond. Because Big Wood is frozen, there is no way for the canoeists to get back across.

The trio had planned to camp out in the area while making the canoe trip so Dorian thought they would be prepared for the weather.

“I don’t have any real fear that their lives are in jeopardy at this point. It’s just locating them that’s going to be the problem,” he said.