Field Reports
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.[…]
Lake Pontchartrain
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Loading the boat at Seabrook in Lake Pontchartrain
Jared Serigné goes fishing at the Seabrook Floodgate Structure, located where the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal meets Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Field Reports
What’s biting on the east side of Lake Pontchartrain?
Want to spend your day fighting speckled trout, redfish, black drum, flounder, blue catfish and more? This is the place you need to be.[…]
Features
Follow the shrimp for spring specks
It’s May in Louisiana, and the brown shrimp are beginning their move out of the marsh, setting the stage for some amazing trout fishing.[…]
Features
Get a limit of springtime specks at Lemo’s Reef
For anglers willing to focus on structure, April offers the best opportunity to catch a limit of big, thick speckled trout at Lemo’s Reef.[…]
Features
Lake Pontchartrain transition trout
The push from winter to spring will continue from March through April, and the trout will keep adjusting right along with it.[…]
Newsletters
Lake Pontchartrain hotspot gives up nearly 7-pound speckled trout
Chas Champagne hooked this speckled trout weighing a nearly 7 pounds at one of his favorite wintertime Lake Pontchartrain hotspots on Nov. 26.[…]
Field Reports
What can I catch at the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is 24 miles of fish-holding structure. This week, Marsh Man Masson went there to see what he could catch.[…]
Field Notes
Fontainebleau State Park
Fontainebleau State Park works to conserve the history of the area as well as its bountiful natural beauty within its boundaries.[…]
Features
The 24-mile comeback – Head to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway for big trout
Joey Gauthier of Mandeville has been fishing the Causeway his entire life and has seen the ebb and flow of speckled trout production.[…]
Columns
The restoration of Lake Pontchartrain
The success of Lake Pontchartrain’s restoration over the last 30 years should be celebrated by all who live in South Louisiana.[…]
Catfish
Lake Pontchartrain’s frosty weather blue catfish bite
Jamey Cursi of Slidell fishes the bridges near his home on Lake Pontchartrain and has been cleaning blue catfish every fish cleaning session.[…]
Field Notes
Politics played a role in naming two of Louisiana’s largest lakes
In his initial exploration of the river, Sieur d’Iberville ascended the Mississippi to near the mouth of the Red River.[…]
Features
Causeway redfish
There’s plenty of time to get out and take advantage of the stout redfish bite at the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge.[…]
Field Reports
Battling jack crevalle in Lake Pontchartrain
In this video, Jared Serigné went fishing for hard-fighting jack crevalle with Capt. Ty Hibbs in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Field Reports
Summer surprises
This summer had a surprising surplus of speckled trout on the bridges so Chas Champagne hopes this fall will be a good one.[…]