Posted: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:36 AM - 7,767 Readers

By: The Associated Press

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the search has been suspended for an off-duty trooper who did not return following a boat trip on Lake Travis during bad weather.

DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange told The Associated Press that an update would be provided later Wednesday. She declined to release further details in the search for 50-year-old Trooper Wesley Chenault of Spicewood.

Chenault went out Monday afternoon in a flat-bottom aluminum boat to check some trot lines, but never returned. The boat was located hours later on the banks of the lake.

Mange says emergency personnel had searched through Tuesday night.