STOP TROPHY CATFISH PAYLAKES. Let’s get Tennessee on board with banning trophy catfish paylakes. If you know anything about trophy catfish Paylakes you know it hurts our rivers and natural bodies of waters and these fish don’t get to live very long once placed into these small bodies of water with chemicals to make them more aggressive toward the other fish and anything you put in the water if you don’t know what trophy catfish paylakes do let me feel you in a little bit these ponds /“lakes” pay commercial fishermen and sometimes even normal everyday fishermen to bring them big catfish in loads were talking 20+ lb catfish no smaller it has been proven that countless state record catfish end up paylakes where they are caught multiple times until they die from being over stressed and having chemicals destroy their bodies inside out and these record never get to see the record books as it doesn’t qualify as a state record as you payed to catch it and then you have to pay that pay lake so much said money to take that big fish out of it to take it home or back to a natural river it’s sad and it has destroyed our rivers in Tennessee enough that many people have noticed a decline in trophy catfish if we all come together we can get the state reps to take notice and we can potentially put a end to trophy catfish paylakes