Field Reports
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.[…]
Lake Pontchartrain
Field Reports
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.[…]
Field Reports
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.[…]
Field Reports
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.[…]
Columns
Trout ignore structure? Better notify the Trestles
The Lake Pontchartrain Trestles show anglers exactly how speckled trout can use a piece of structure effectively.[…]
Field Reports
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.[…]
Field Reports
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.[…]
Field Reports
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.[…]
Fishing
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.[…]
Newsletters
Spring trout fishing is strong on Lake Pontchartrain
Chas Champagne, owner of Matrix Shad, caught a 6-pound, 25-inch speckled trout on Tuesday, April 6, in Lake Pontchartrain.[…]
Field Reports
Bridge trout eating the Mega Matrix
With the trout growing in size day by day, DockSide TV heads out with the big Matrix MEGA in search of a wall hanger speckled trout.[…]
Field Reports
Specks gorging glass minnows
The annual “Trestle Run” has started and here is the first of many Lake Pontchartrain speckled trout episodes from DockSide TV.[…]
Features
Trolling Pontchartrain’s ‘Trestles” to fill the cooler with April trout
Don’t get stuck fishing in one spot. Trolling Lake Pontchartrain’s ‘Trestles’ can shake up some speckled trout in April.[…]
Field Reports
Big speckled trout already crowding this bridge!
Marsh Man Masson, Joel Masson and Capt. Justin Bowles head to the railroad bridge over Lake Pontchartrain to catch speckled trout.[…]
Fishing Hotspots
Popping corks are ticket for Lake Catherine trout
The past three years in March, Capt. Kris Robert of One Last Cast Charters has found very good speckled trout action in Lake Catherine.[…]
Field Reports
Trolling for speckled trout in the winter
DockSide TV‘s Chas Champagne showcases some trolling methods on how to target speckled trout during the winter months.[…]