Deputies found the couple, Gerard and Lisa Triche, about 15 feet up in cypress trees along the lake’s edge in Assumption Parish. The couple tied themselves — with a lifejacket and an Ace bandage — to the trees so they wouldn’t fall while they waited for rescue.
Assumption and St. Martin parish sheriff’s deputies rescued a Baton Rouge couple early Monday who were treed for about five hours by alligators after their boat sank Sunday in choppy waters on Lake Verret, authorities said.
The Triches were trying to avoid the alligators that had been moving toward them in the swamps along the lake’s shoreline, Assumption Parish sheriff’s deputies said in a news release Monday.
The Triches were found about a half-mile south of the Cracker Head Canal, which is a popular fishing area, deputies said.
Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said Monday that the location is about five miles from where the Triches launched their boat about noon Sunday at the Bayou Corne Boat Launch.
Deputies, who arrived sometime after midnight, said they spotted alligators in the vicinity.
Gerard Triche, 45, said Monday bad weather kicked up waves on the lake after his 14-foot Monarch boat began having mechanical trouble, which deputies said happened about 5 p.m. Sunday.
Triche, who was on the lake with his wife, 48, to fish, said he was working on the boat when waves rolled over its stern, swamping it.
“It just sunk. It was violent and quick,” he said.
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