


It presents a new panorama and offers relief from the brutal summer sun.īut there seems to be something more. There seems to be a mystifying attraction to fishing under lights at night, and many are entranced by it. The meeting of man and beast would be contested in this arena, under Friday night lights. The participants would not be ball players but creatures that roam the dark waters to devour and be devoured, both large and small. Here were mounted two stadium lights that, with the flick of a switch, would turn the night waters into an illuminated playing field. His destination was a small, wooden platform almost even with the water, where two pilings projected upward.

Even after five hard days at work in the summer heat, he was invigorated as he hurried down the fishing pier.
