Travis and his coworkers Luke and Glen went sea fishing off the Louisiana coast the Saturday of Father's Day weekend. Travis kept his breakfast down this time and they caught 65 fish, only 10 fish short of their combined limit of 75.
Glen graciously invited Travis and Luke to go out with him on his boat. Travis describes Glen as a man whom lives to fish. Glen has a "camp" (a cabin on stilts) in a town called Dulac in the coastal marshlands. Glen goes straight from work to go fishing for the weekend and comes back in just enough time to get rested for work work Monday morning. Travis and luke were ertainly blessed to have a REAL sea fishing experience with Glen.
Travis met Luke at the McDonald's in LaPlace (30 min. south of here) at 4:00 a.m. They drove south some more and met Glen at his cabin and launched the boat at 6:00 a.m. They motored 30 minutes until they were in the Gulf of Mexico and fished for 9 hours! They spent a whole hour cleaning fish after they the docked back at the cabin.
Sixty-four of the fish the guys caught were speckled trout, Glen's favorite. Fish "65" was a red fish, and the highlight of Travis's fishing excursion. Glen actually snagged the red fish on his line. Glen had Travis grab the reel and pull in the fish so Glen could drive toward the fish (because the fish was taking out too much line). Glen's fish sclae maxed out at it's 20 lb. limit when they weighed the big fish, so he estimated the fish's weight at around 25 lbs. Red fish is a specialty fish served at restaurants around here. Glen doesn't have a taste for red fish, though, so after Travis took a picture with his cell phone of Luke holding the red fish, they threw him back to freedom.
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