Pay Catfish ponds around BR

Have a 4 1/2 year old and was trying to do the same thing around Houston. Most of them have closed or converted to a catfish farm.

Also, Waddill Wildlife Refuge on Flannery Road has two ponds stocked with bream and catfish. There are piers around those ponds, so it's safe for little ones. The fish aren't huge, but my kids tore them up on crickets over there. You can get crickets from Jones Creek Hardware. At Waddill, there are also a few hiking trails that lead to the Comite River, and an archery range. It's really a nice place right in the middle of Baton Rouge.







FYI, rarely this crowded. Those are photos from a tournament they have each year. We usually see less that 10 people fishing any time we've gone.

Bonne Carre spillway, free and full of cats.

I remember going to the Ozone Catfish Farm just east of Hammond (not far from the Lorraine Fire Tower) when I was little. Then there were the Holden Catfishing Lakes, but they're no more, either.