About us

We manufacture sports nets, netting, twine, rope, mason line and other cordage products which have various applications ranging from baseball batting cages to duck decoy anchor cord.

In 1989, we acquired our first twisters for twisted twine. We have since grown to be the premier twine manufacturer in the world. This has been accomplished by providing guaranteed top quality, fast service, unheard of delivery and competitive prices.

Catahoula Manufacturing, Inc. is very proud of the many industrial users of twine we have as customers. We feel it says a lot when another manufacturer thinks enough of our quality to use our twine in making their own product.

History

The Fish Net Company LLC (FNC) dba Nets and More
3509 Fourth Street
Jonesville, LA 71343

5 separate buildings totaling over 60,000 square feet sales and warehouse.

Catahoula Manufacturing Inc
2901 Fourth Street
Jonesville, LA 71343

Approximately 100,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse

Time line for The Fish Net Company LLC (FNC) and Catahoula Manufacturing Inc (CMI)

1981 - Started FNC in old 3,000 sq ft building in Jonesville, LA
1983 - Started making baseball nets at FNC
1985 - Bought land and built first building at 3509 Fourth Street
1987 - Started Louisiana Net in Lafayette, LA
1989 - Started (CMI)
1989 - Bought first twine twisters (CMI) (now one of largest capacity in US)
1990 - Bought braided machines for twine and rope (CMI)
1990 - Started fiberglass department to make rings for hoop nets (FNC)
1991 - Bought first netting machine (CMI) (currently 9 in operation & 2 for future growth)
1992 - Bought "Texasphaltic Net Dip" (FNC)
1993 - Bought injection molding machine (for making floats and rope spool ends) (CMI)
1994 - Bought Pine Mountain twisting company for equipment (CMI)
1995 - Started sport nets fabrication (primarily baseball) (CMI)
1997 - Built building at CMI for dye house
1997 - Bought twine dyeing equipment (CMI)
1998 - Started Netco LLC in Memphis, TN
1999 - Began acquiring netting machines from Southern Net
2000 - Bought high speed braiding equipment (CMI) (eventually about $3 million)
2001 - Started making nets for MLB teams (CMI)
2003 - Bought all of A & S Tribal Industries twisting and netting machines (CMI)
2005 - Bought Maybrun Manufacturing (catfish skinners)
2005 - Bought twisting and netting equipment from Nylon Net (CMI)
2007 - Closed Netco LLC in Memphis, TN
2007 - Started filling Netco’s large (specialty) orders at FNC
2007 - Started making trotline kits (FNC & CMI)
2008 - Started making polyester netting for the water park industry (FNC & CMI)
2010 - Added survival nets to our product line (FMC & CMI)
2014 - Started making high-performance netting (mostly MLB teams) (CMI)
2016 - Bought Johnson Bait equipment for making bait (FNC)
2017 - Fish Net started doing business as "Nets and More"
2017 - Bought fish basket mold from Southern Net (FNC)
2018 - Bought Great Lakes Needles (FNC)
2020 - Bought Galan twister for making large twine (CMI)
2021 - Added line winders for mason line (CMI)
2022 - Bought last 2 netting machines Southern Net had (CMI)
2023 - Fish Net bought "Catfish Getters" (Diddy Poles)
2023 - Started LaBayou Wholesale as a division of FNC

How to buy

Catahoula Manufacturing, Inc. sells wholesale only! Minimum rope or twine order to be set up as a distributor is $2,000.00. Minimum netting or sport nets order to be set up as a distributor is $5,000.00. If you can not meet these requirements, contact us with your area of interest and we will put you in touch with one of our distributors.