I've never paid to play at a fish pond either.I dont think that any record breaker taken from one of those places would be taken seriously. Apart from that, call me crazy, but i find some significant difference between catching a catfish in a pond and shooting a deer in a 80 acre enclosure. And i think that in all instances of pay ponds, you are cathching fish that the owner purchased. In many instances of high fences they are confining a true natural resource.