Fish Story

My friend Darrell, who is a patent attorney for the Navy in the Washington, D. C., area, was in town last week to handle his mother's estate, and he came by to see the progress on our house.  He was our first visitor after we arrived in January.  He brought his brother Bob, who lives in Groves, Texas, near Beaumont, and they invited me to go fishing with them.

So Friday morning about 5:30 AM I hit the road in my Jeep and drove the 140 miles to Groves.  We attempted to go offshore and fish near oil platforms about 6-12 miles out,  but the wind was too high.  So we stayed in Sabine Lake, which is a large salt water lake just inland from the Gulf of Mexico on the Sabine River.

As the photo shows it was a pretty good day for me.  I caught the largest fish of the day, a 28" redfish, which is the largest redfish you can legally keep.  I also caught a couple of nice sized gafftop saltwater catfish and a black drum.  We caught bunches of small catfish, but they all went back into the lake.  I had the most unusual catch of the day, a small hammerhead shark, which obviously was thrown back.

Bob fileted the fish when we arrived back at his home, and he sent me home with two large freezer bags of fish.  It was great fun.  Bob promised to bring his boat to Lake Livingston to see what we can catch here.