Good for you taking your kid fishing. I live in Youngsville too, moved there last year. I fished Fearman Lake a good bit last year and usually caught redfish no problem. If the tide was high just start fishing at the mouth of it and hug the marsh to the left and keep on. I like to throw finger mullet under a cork for them, but if you can get some live cocahoe minnows that is the ticket. Fish it a foot or two under the cork and throw near the grass. If tide starts falling, get back out to the mouth and fish there. You can fish on the bottom there and catch reds, tons of croaker, and catfish also if you just want something to pull your line.
There is another place called Little Bay with some manmade structures that hold redfish and flounder also. If you skunk on any of that, get some dead shrimp and tie up to a tree or anchor down in the Intracoastal and fish on the bottom for blue cat.
BUT, if you really really want to catch some fish, trailer on over to Big Lake, I have not even been back to V Bay since I fished Big Lake last year.
One more thing, if you just want to catch, then think seriously about just putting in on the Vermilion River and fish a nightcrawler on the botttom. Lots of catfish in there
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