I've been off on a fishing trip for a few days and so I'm catching up on the board.

The "catfish" pond is one of several nurseries that the AGFC operated. They are scattered over arkansas, and were open to kids 12 and under on Saturday.

I'm not sure where the fish come from, but they look to be the "used" breeders. Kids are allowed 3 fish, it's usually from about 9 am till 1 pm. When you see mention of the "fish for free" week-end if you look at the web page for AGFC you can get the details for these locations and times for the kids. I'm not sure it's limited to the hatcheries...I know that they stocked ponds for kids for in other locations near Little Rock in previous years.

They also seem to do a "trout" tourney on the Lil Red at the same time. You can see the note about it from Maddog.