Brec Baton Rouge Parks and Recreation use to do a fair job stocking the ponds.
It just wasn't a priority, but they did stock them. I saw some trucks stock ponds.
In late 1980's and early 1990s they worked with DWLF to stock North Sherwood Pond with Rainbow trout.
Back then you had to go to the Kmart on Florida Blvd near the pond to buy a trout stamp which wasn't that much to help support stocking.
At that time DWLF was looking into stocking more park and recreation ponds throughout the state.
If they would have followed through I think they would have found out people would have probably bought a trout stamp to support it if it was affordable.
I heard the program died due to DWLF budget was tight, mixture of politics, and Brec had limited funds on their side for that program.
All of a sudden around 2006-2007 Brec brought life back in stocking the ponds and been a real hit. They even built some new ponds, so I think Brec done a bang up job really supporting urban fishing. Some of these ponds especially North Sherwood and Greenwood are mature ponds and have some mature bass in them. This year they are working on North Sherwood that why they didn't stock it with trout.
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