Fishing Hotspots
Avoid Pontchartrain’s crowded trestles and still catch November specks
Old pilings around camps on eastern end of Pontchartrain will hold November specks. […]
Lake Pontchartrain
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Fishing the eelgrass flats
Chas Champagne fishes the grass flats of Lake Pontchartrain using the new colors of Charleigh’s Cajun Cocahoe from Matrix Shad. […]
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Using heavy mono at the Twin Span
Chas Champagne catches a few summer speckled trout and redfish on the Twin Span. He also explains the importance of heavy line. […]
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Quick redfish trip to Lake Pontchartrain
Devin Denman hits Lake Pontchartrain to catch some redfish before heading to ICast 2021 in Orlando, Florida. […]
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Summer redfish in Lake Pontchartrain
Follow along as Devin Denman traverses the wide waters of Lake Pontchartrain to home in on an easy bite of redfish. […]
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Jigging for Lake Pontchartrain speckled trout
Jigging speckled trout at the Lake Pontchartrain Trestles and Highway 11 bridges is one of Devin Denman’s favorite ways to catch them. […]
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Topwaters, corks and jigs catching trout
DockSide TV heads out to a leeward Lake Pontchartrain shoreline in search of shallow speckled trout with Matrix Shad baits. […]
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Fishing Lake Pontchartrain shorelines for nice specks
Chas Champagne does some shallow shoreline fishing with the “Midnight Mullet” Matrix Shad and a Goldeneye Jig Head. […]
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Schooling specks on rock jetties
Chas Champagne heads away from the community holes and finds schooling speckled trout on a new rock jetty in Lake Pontchartrain. […]
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Monster trout at the U.S. 11 bridge
Chas Champagne fishes an area that is notorious for monster speckled trout, the U.S. 11 bridge across Lake Pontchartrain. […]
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Trout hanging with mullet on the Trestles
The speckled trout hanging near the bridge pilings of the Lake Pontchartrain Trestles don’t mind windy conditions. […]
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Trout ignore structure? Better notify the Trestles
The Lake Pontchartrain Trestles show anglers exactly how speckled trout can use a piece of structure effectively. […]
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Fishing structure blown down by Hurricane Katrina
Chas Champagne fishes the old Interstate 10 twin span over Lake Pontchartrain, which was one of his favorite places to fish before Katrina. […]
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Digging speckled trout out of sunken pilings
Chas Champagne fishes some old sunken camp pilings for speckled trout and redfish using the “Tiger Bait” Matrix Shad. […]
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Spring fishing at the Twin Span
Chas Champagne gets away from the Trestles traffic and showcases one of his other favorite bridges to fish, the I-10 Twin Span Bridge. […]
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What’s in store for the Bonnet Carré Spillway this year?
Will the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open the Bonnet Carré spillway this year? If current trends continue, they won’t have to. […]