Field Reports
Trout techniques producing deep-water reds
Chas Champagne heads out to the well known trout bridges of Lake Pontchartrain and targets redfish in the summer heat.[…]
Field Reports
Bass Fishing
Most common Chatterbait mistakes
Don’t make these mistakes when using a Chatterbait! Here’s some of the things bass pro Brian Latimer feels makes chatterbait fishing better.[…]
Field Reports
PLAN B delivers the redfish!
The fishing was slow in the marsh — at least to start the day. But it picked up, and the redfish started to bite.[…]
Bass Fishing
Whopper Plopper vs Buzzbait
What’s the difference between a Whopper Plopper and buzzbait? Listen to Brian Latimer’s explanation of why he like one versus the other.[…]
Field Reports
Redfish crushing crawfish in plain sight
A great sight-fishing video from DockSide TV targeting pretty slot reds with the Matrix Craw “Chinese Bandit.”[…]
Field Reports
Sleep in to catch more fish right now!
If you’re a marsh angler, you should time every autumn trip to fish a falling tide. The marshes are overloaded with bait.[…]
Fishing Reports
First Cobia
Sunday August 2 was a hot one, but my dad and husband wanted to go fishing. We headed out of Venice through Red Pass to the West Delta Rigs. I normally do okay when out
Field Reports
First big saltwater fish
Larry Rice was fishing with his friend Tyson Buras when he caught his first big saltwater fish, this black drum, on Aug, 17 out of Grand Isle.[…]
Bass Fishing
Most common dropshot mistakes
FLW Tour pro Brian Latimer shares some of the most common dropshot mistakes he’s noticed over the years. These will help you catch more fish. […]
Field Reports
Fall-like redfish bite in Grand Isle!
Tommy Vidrine reports on the great redfish bite right now in Grand Isle. It will only get better the closer we get to fall.[…]
Bass Fishing
How to finish the deal, catch the fish you missed
If you missed a bite, blow up, or strike the first cast, don’t give up. Bass pro Cliff Crochet shows how to follow up a missed strike.[…]
Field Reports
Reader Report: First bull red
David Clause of Eunice helps his Heather Ray bag her first bull red on a very eventful saltwater fishing trip that almost didn’t happen.[…]
Field Reports
Topwater trout, deepwater bass and sightfishing reds
On this episode of DockSide TV, Chas Champagne uses many different techniques to fish in the summer time marsh using Matrix Shad products.[…]
Field Reports
Top-smacking speckled trout already thick in marsh!
Speckled trout are inside — certainly not in the numbers they will be in a few weeks, but plenty enough to keep an angler entertained.[…]
Field Reports
A little island, a lot of speckled trout!
Todd Masson and Capt. Justin Bowles got clues that the speckled trout began the move early this year, so they set out to intercept them at a halfway point.[…]
Field Reports
Bowfishing in the Hopedale marsh
Shawn Nelson and his dad both got to experience bowfishing together for the first time and had a blast catching redfish and gar in Hopedale.[…]