re: Lake Chicot

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.