Capt. Chas Champagne is an avid angler, located in Slidell, LA. Capt. Chas owns and operates Dockside Bait & Tackle and also manufactures his own tackle producing the Matrix Shad fishing lure and the Golden Eye jig heads.
Wow!!! What an amazing start to the fall/winter run this 2016′ year in Lake Pontchartrain. By far the best trout season we have seen in the Pontchartrain estuary in the past five dreadful years. The weather has started off fantastic this fall with basically zero precipitation for two entire months allowing all the rivers…
Capt. Robert “Mike” Bell Have lived on and fished Biloxi’s Back Bay for 61 years. Have held 6 Mississippi saltwater records. I enjoy fishing for all available species, but specialize in shallow water pursuit of Speckled Trout, Redfish and Flounder. Retired from Tidewater Marine, I fish 5 days a week and frequently at night. After…
This is the time of the year to put the soft plastics up for a few weeks and pull out your hard bait box. Speckled trout across the entire Gulf coast really favor top waters and suspending jerk baits throughout the transition months of early fall until true fall or winter temperatures set in. The…
Well the Pontchartrain Basin is notoriously known for deep water, heavy jig heads and fishing the bottom. Well throw all that out the window in October. White shrimp are moving into the interior marshes and outside shorelines and there is not a better way to mimic the sound of a shrimp than a popping cork.…
We are far from experts on catching flounder on the beach front but after the last few days it seemed like we were doing something right. The Matrix family headed to a little labor day beach vacation this weekend and the family included of the boys, the wife and I and the plus one, the…
Well the end of a rather dry summer has came to a close with the most rain the great state of Louisiana has seen in hundreds of years or more. The people of the Baton Rouge area was hit with 20-40 inches of rain in just 48 hours and caused drastic flooding from the Amite…
I am a well experienced fisherman I fish both salt and freshwater. I fish mostly in Delacroix, bayou bienvenue, and the lake ponchatrain areas and little bit of grand isle. I am also a fish tagger for tag Louisiana. Matrix shad is the best bait ever made. I’ve yet to find a species of fish…
Matrix Shad users had great success this weekend while using Matrix and Vortex products at the 2016′ Faux Pas Invitational inshore divisions. The ”Creme De La Creme” of this tournament’s categories is the inshore Grand Slam Calcutta. This category is for the largest combined weight of a flounder, trout and slot red fish. This year…
It has been a good sign of late with signs of life showing great progress in Lake Pontchartrain. Small shrimp sightings are being reported under diving birds all over the lake and it is only July. This is a very good sign for things to come for this upcoming fall. When running around the…