re: Night Fishing Memories

During my early teens, we would bank fish Lake Pontchartrain directly behind the old Jefferson Downs Race Track in Kenner. Arrive at dusk, and fish till sunrise. We mainly caught sand sharks and gar fish using cut mullet. Catch and release for fun since nobody wanted to skin and clean a 4-6 foot fish. Usually from 8:00pm - 10:30pm, we’d walk 75 yds. up the levee and climb the rear fence of the backstretch to watch the horses run. You could hear the thundering noise approaching the closer the horses got. Once they were on us, you could feel the ground shaking and in less than 5 seconds they were gone rounding turn 3.

Such great memories and lots of fun with friends. Listening to our favorite cassette tapes of Zeppelin, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Maiden, Black Sabbath, etc… on a vintage Panasonic boom box using 8 D-cell batteries. Those were the days … nobody got in trouble, no one went to jail, just teenagers in the early 80’s doing teenage outdoor activities I’ll never forget and sadly my kids or future grandkids will never get to experience