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June 27, 2022
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Articles by Chas Champagne

Field Reports

Sight fishing redfish after Hurricane Ida

October 7, 2021 Chas Champagne

Chas Champagne of DockSide TV shows the excitement of sight fishing Louisiana redfish using the “Kamikaze” Vortex Shad. […]

Field Reports

Hurricane Ida pushes trout into residential canals

September 29, 2021 Chas Champagne

Speckled trout are just starting to move in and Hurricane Ida has them in some unconventional places right now. […]

Field Reports

Cold water crappie

February 25, 2021 Chas Champagne

DockSide TV breaks out the micro spins and push buttons and gears up with the Matrix Mini to target wintertime crappie. […]

Field Reports

Topwater trout, deepwater bass and sightfishing reds

August 27, 2020 Chas Champagne

On this episode of DockSide TV, Chas Champagne uses many different techniques to fish in the summer time marsh using Matrix Shad products. […]

Speckled Trout

New Matrix XShad battles trout in Chalmette

March 11, 2020 Chas Champagne

Chas Champagne breaks out the new Matrix XShad in Chalmette and shows how it catches trout after trout on this episode of Dockside TV. […]

Speckled Trout

Pulling big trout out of heavy structure

January 7, 2020 Chas Champagne

Trout fishing tends to slow down this time of year as far as numbers go, but targeting trophy size specks can heat up this month. […]

Inshore Fishing

Solitude on the Twin Span

December 18, 2019 Chas Champagne

Chas Champagne loves when the water drops out for marsh fishing as it consolidates the fish into the deeper bayous driving them out of the shallows. […]

Speckled Trout

Trout at the Lake Pontchartrain Trestles

December 16, 2019 Chas Champagne

If it stays a mild winter, the bridges of Lake Pontchartrain will continue to produce nice speckled trout along with the local man made canals. […]

Redfish

The Pumpkin Patch Matrix Craw goes to work on schools of redfish

September 30, 2019 Chas Champagne

In this episode of Dockside TV, the crew goes to work into a redfish-infested pond armed with the Pumpkin Patch Matrix Craw. […]

Redfish

Prime time sight fishing for redfish

September 18, 2019 Chas Champagne

Chas Champagne does some sight fishing for redfish off the ICW, Pearl River, and Chef Pass areas with the Matrix Craw on the latest Dockside TV episode. […]

Redfish

Tossing reds over the gunwale in Lake Borgne

September 4, 2019 Chas Champagne

Chas Champagne and his wife headed out across a rough Lake Pontchartrain and ended up in a slick calm Lake Borgne to sight fish for redfish. […]

Redfish

Redfish riding high

August 7, 2019 Chas Champagne

Ponds from Delacroix across to the Biloxi Marsh all the way back to the ICW are great places to sight-fish for reds this time of year. […]

Columns

Where did all our big trout go?

August 5, 2019 Chas Champagne

A subject that many trophy trout anglers across Louisiana continue to discuss is where have the big trout gone in Louisiana? […]

Lake Pontchartain Speckled Trout
Speckled Trout

Trout will stack up as they start migrating out of Lake Pontchartrain

February 28, 2019 Chas Champagne

As fresh Mississippi River water pours into Lake Pontchartrain via the Bonnet Carré Spillway opening, here’s your chance to double down on speckled trout for the next few weeks. […]

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