According to Chas Champange, owner of Matrix Shad, any time between March and May is prime time for spring speckled trout fishing in Lake Pontchartrain. Champagne fished Lake Pontchartrain on Monday, April 27, and found some fish on the trestles. He caught them using a lemon head Matrix Shad on a 3/8-ounce jig head. While the lake still has dirty water from a high Pearl River and the Bonnet Carre Spillway, Champagne reports that anglers can still find trout in the lake if they can locate the clean water.
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Inside speckled trout already hitting jerkbaits
Every day, keepers specks are feasting on shrimp and baitfish in inside lakes, and the biggest ones are crushing hard-plastic jerkbaits.[…]
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Doormats and pumpkins at Lake Pontchartrain
Chas Champagne starts off in Lake Pontchartrain and ends up pushing way back in some flooded duck ponds on high tides catching fat slot reds.[…]
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Speckled trout + white trout + more
If you wanna have a blast and put meat in the box, there aren’t many better places to go fishing right now.[…]