The search has been called off for a Sydney fishing expert who went missing on a fishing trip in far north Queensland.
Roman Butchaski, 76, was last seen leaving a remote cattle station for a fishing trip in Cape York just over a week ago.
The search for Butchaski was called off on Monday, 7NEWS understands.
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While searchers found the car which the former radio host drove from the station at Shelburne to the Olive River, no other signs of Butchaski have been found.
Butchaski is not believed to have been using a boat and was instead fishing from the banks of the river — a known crocodile habitat.
Oleh Butchaski believes his brother could be lost in the rugged bushland, and told 7NEWS he hopes the army can step in to continue the search.
“It’s a semi tropical rainforest … the Olive River looks to me more like a creek than a river … there’s water but it’s not particularly deep, the vegetation is not particularly dense, and it’s reasonably flat,” he said.
“However, it’s a complicated system and it’s quite easy to get lost there.”
Butchaski’s former radio co-host Gavin Pitchford told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that Butchaski lives with diabetes and “he may have suffered some kind of episode”.
Senior Sergeant Duane Amos last Monday said a “specific area” of the Olive River had been searched for the “avid fisherman”.
Amos said the area was “significantly dense” bushland that is “difficult” to navigate.
He said the prospect of crocs being in the area is a “reasonable expectation”.
“That’s something that the search and rescue co-ordinators would be taking into consideration,” Amos said.
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