Lake Chicot

Short answer: no

Aside from being a very hard place to catch a fish, one of the biggest annual bass fishing tournaments for the lake is on Good Friday.

If you are bent on fishing, I’d drown a cricket under a cork, moving from dock to dock. Should catch a few brim.

Friend and I used to refer to it as Shatco lol. You can catch a wall hanger there or get your azz handed to you. My wall is still open.

Gave that park up. Last camping trip some drunks howled at the moon till midnight a forgot to boil almost a bag of crawfish and they were crawling all around the campsites. No enforcement of quiet. And all we caught were bream and mud cats. We go north now.

Went there once about three years ago. Caught no fish. Got into an overnight battle with the biggest and most aggressive raccoons I’ve ever seen.
Work up first morning to what sounded like WW2 going on as it was opening morning of duck season.
Also got a flat tire as well.

Beautiful place, but I probably won’t be going back.

My dad's family used to do their family reunion at the state park the weekend of Father's Day. We always got cabins together, Fried fish and barbecued a goat. The fish fry came with fried potatoes, pickles, okra, squash, anything they could batter up and fry. Some of my cousins fished and they said they went frog gigging, but when I went frog gigging with them we just parked on a levee and drank beer. We always had a good time.

That park has some cool boat tours for the kids. My nephews did one where they encountered Confederate soldiers firing muskets on an island. They found a rare frog that the park rangers brought back to their office, and put in their indoor terrarium with reptiles and amphibians. As soon as they put it in there a snake swallowed it. My youngest nephew started crying. They lived in Alaska and weren't used to seeing lots of little critters.