Rainbow trout rodeo

[T and F fishing]

thanks for the info i've never fished that way since i'm in lafayette but i'd like to take my 10 ft with trolling motor over to the park by the zoo that pond/lake looks really nice from the arial view

[jlsch1]

Greenwood Pond was one of the first ponds they ever put trout in next to North Sherwood. They typically put the larger trout in Greenwood due to its a more challenging pond and larger area. There is a tackle store down Hwy 19 by Popeye's chicken in Baker almost going outside of town on the right. I think use to be called Louie's looks like rundown convience store put still has tackle in it shiners, crickets, fishing tackle. Guy in there use to tell me they would catch some nice trout all the way in June and July. I saw pictures and size was better than North Sherwood.

For some reason Greenwood pond has held trout year round its just tuff place to fish.
Smaller ponds get fished out quicker or trout die due these ponds heat up quickly.

Still love it after Catch Cormier with Red Stick Fly Club declaired there was no more big fish in the North Sherwood Pond I caught this bass. Same day caught some trout even though the ministers of misinformation declaired that fish are all gone. Guess they didn't tell this bass he shouldn't have been in the pond.


Ponds are easy to fish and then once they get pressured the fish scatter and are alot harder to fish. Remember match bait to the pond.
Again I don't know how to fish the ponds and never caught any fish out of them. Heee Hee Hee
Maybe you should ask the members of the Red Stick Fly Club due to they are the experts on fishing the Brec Ponds. Hee Hee Hee

[T and F fishing]

No real nice city ponds in lafayette or there is a nice one with concrete edges off camelia blvd real nice for fish but they don't put fish in it or keep up with stocking it i'm a have to hit the neighborhood prvt ponds hehehe

[jlsch1]

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.

[eman]

There was actually a corporate donation that paid for the trout this year.
i was told who it was but since i'm not sure i remember i will find out b4 mentioning the name.