Rainbow Trout in BREC ponds

check with the redstick fly fishers

try the one off choctaw... but. pickings are very slim now.

Wonder how good they are prepared coonass style (by a coonass not a Yankee recipe)

Several BREC ponds are stocked every year in the winter with fingerling rainbows. They cannot survive the summer heat.

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They cannot survive the summer heat.

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Why would they do this? It sounds like a ridiculous waste of public funds.

They do it so they can have fishing tournaments for kids in the neighborhoods. <que racist jokes here>. I think it's a good thing for those kids who may not have the means to go fishing elsewhere.

Tried a couple years in a row with my boy. Haven't tried this year. Never caught anything. Seen a few caught, though. The people who live near the ponds are aware of when this first happens and I think they all get caught or die soon after release.

Personally I like it.

I caught a few last Feb on a chug bug. I have a friend who is a manager at BREC and he said all u need is some corn and fish the bottom. You'll catch more trout that way. He said most of the trout are already gone. Most have been caught. Supposed to be a 4 daily limit but I doubt that is followed.

I tried at the perkins park lake and didn't catch sheyat.

However, I think it is a great idea. When I lived in Monterey, CA back in the early 90's, the local recreation department would do this same thing.
They would sod the banks of the lake and it brought tons of people out with picnics, etc. It was a great time.

I'm sure the vision is the same for Baton Rouge.
It isn't working out quite the same, but I hope they keep doing it.