On Thursday, November 6th at 9:00 a.m., Joe Pecot, Dick Pecot and I met up at Gary's for our annual trip into the marsh to open duck season in southeast Louisiana. Duck season would open on Saturday the 8th. We would spend Thursday & Friday fishing for redfish. With visions of huge redfish and plenty of ducks flying, we loaded up the flatboat and mudboat and headed to the launch in Venice. I pulled the mudboat while Joe towed the flatboat. We all wondered if the monster redfish would be waiting for us.
The trip to the launch and to the campsite was uneventful. We quickly set up camp and decided to go fishing. We immediately set out for the large sand flat n the Gulf of Mexico. The wind was calm and so was the water. We caught several large redfish that afternoon. Normally when one of us hooks a big red, the others reel in their line so the angler with the monster at end of his line has all the room he needs to fight the fish. On Friday Joe hooked into a very big fish. Just as he did, Dick also got a strike on his line. In tandem, they fought big fish. I netted both of them and they got them in the boat at the same time. |
