Video: Fish Wagon Rolls Into Louisville

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LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) — It’s Fish Day Friday in Louisville. A refrigerated truck load of fish is being brought in from far away as Arkansas to help stock local ponds and lakes.

Once a month, local owners of ponds and lakes gather at places like Ward Farm Services in Louisville, a special fish wagon with literally thousands and thousands of a large variety of fish are made available.

“We bring catfish hybrid bluegills, straight bluegills, red ear, bass, minnows, koy, grass carp. That’s what really they like, the grass carp,” said Arkansas resident Keith Holcomb.

“I’m buying three carp to eat grass and weeds out of my pond. No I’m not going to eat them,” Noxubee County resident Cedell Alexander said.

Armed with a long list of places to be serviced with fish for both commercial and private ponds, a father and son duo are able to distribute more than 10,000 fish in one week’s time. Some pond owners want one fish while others need 1,000.

“We start in Cold Water and we’re going to end in Ripley, Mississippi tomorrow at 12 o’clock. We start in Bruce, Mississippi in the morning, we end in Mathiston today at 5:15,” said Arkansas resident Brandon Holcomb. “We go to Texas for a week and then we’re going to shut down for a month and we’ll start back again by September.”

Providing for big operations or just small private concerns, the specially designed refrigerated wagon brings the product to the client.

“Here you all have a lot of catfish ponds and here they sell for catfish, but they do it for the local markets to people and to the eating places. We just have small catfish, small brim, that you can put in your pond and raise yourself and enjoy watching them come up and grow and then eat them when you get ready to eat them,” said Keith.

Alexander is counting on three big carp from the fish wagon, to get green unwanted weed out of his pond.

“I hope so, that’s what I’m getting them for,” said Alexander.

Friday the fish wagon made stops in Macon and Columbus.

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