My First Fishing Trip

We went to the bay for the holiday weekend. I have been wanting to go fishing with Jason and on Friday I got the chance. Jason, John and I got up at the crack of dawn and headed out at 6:15 a.m. There were storms out in the gulf but we went anyways. As you can see in the center of the picture there was rain but we were able to drive around it. Our gracious CaptainJohn getting some beauty rest on the way out.

Martin & Linda recently got two new beautiful boats. The big boat has a GPS unit in it and mapping software so the guys plugged in some reefs the night before. We hit the first one which was about 12 miles out. John threw in the first line and BAM caught one right away. We caught two Red Snapper but had to throw them back because they weren't big enough. State regulations say they have to be at least 16 inches long.

Reeling in my first catch.After that we drove to an oil rig that is about 23 miles out. The water was so calm it was awesome. We trolled around there for a while and Jason reeled in a huge King Mackerel.After trolling for a while we decided to go out even farther. Like I said the water was so calm it was easy to drive the boat. We made good time and ended up going 40 miles out. We found another reef that Jason had plugged into the GPS unit. Like before, John threw the first line out and BAM caught a really big Red Snapper. We all caught some at this reef. In this picture I was reeling in a really big one and I had him over half way up but he got away. I was bummed, I really wanted to see how big he was. I was having a hard time reeling the fish in since I'm not as big and strong as the guys. So John got out this belt that had a holder where you can put the bottom of the fishing rod. It made it so much easier for me. Thanks John! As you can see I am really struggling to get this guy up!
Here's Jason catching one!
I took a picture of the water on the way home. It was really calm but the water was actually really nasty. Because of all the flooding up north the water was very muddy (it all traveled down the Mississippi River). You could not see but maybe an inch below the the surface.
Here are our five Red Snapper and the big King Mackerel.

I wanted a picture of myself holding the fish I caught. I've never picked up a fish before. I'm not sure I ever will again. It was super slimy.

I really want to thank Sarah, Linda & Martin for watching the kids that day so Jason and I could go out fishing together. We had such a good time. We really appreciate you doing that for us!! That night we had a bunch of friends and family over for dinner. It was a lot of fun. Here is Addie looking precious.
Jason's cousin, Lara, has a little boy named Harry. Harry is 2.5 years old and Zachary was so excited he was coming over. Here are the boys when they first saw each other. Harry was carrying a Blue Lightening McQueen (from the movie Cars) so Zachary ran to get his red Lightening McQueen. The boys had so much fun running around.