Nick Varnado My name is Nick Varnado. Originally from Folsom, I began my saltwater fishing adventure in the Florida Keys. Growing up on a sailboat I was given the opportunity to travel throughout the Caribbean and fish some of the greatest sport fishing grounds on earth. After returning to Louisiana for college I turned my…
Fall and Winter is one of the best times to target trophy trout with hard baits and save the soft plastics for the schoolies. Focus on floating hard baits over grassy shorelines in the fall and transition over to hovering them over rocky banks as we move to winter. In the fall big trout seem…
It has been a long time since matrix has added a new family member but the time to do so has came and www.MatrixShad.com has a plethora of new items to hit the shelves for this fall and winter. The first new family member will be the Mega Matrix. The Mega Matrix is…
There probably is not an easier time to locate reds than the month of October. Waters clean up, rivers drop and red fish flourish. Water temperatures begin to cool and red fish begin to herd up like cattle. We spend a lot of time while waiting on the speckled trout to settle in chasing…
After a dismal and wet August this summer, September has seen more sun than the equator. Blue bird sunny days on the regular bringing out record setting heat waves also. The good news is the red fish love the sun and could care less about the heat. The good news for us red…
A Tournament Day that I Will Always Remember: By Kris Robert We scouted about 4 days but not all consecutive days but about 4 total. The heat at some point gets to be unbearable. We found a school of fish in 4 different spots but on tournament day the wind had been blowing NW for…
With warm temperatures the fishing has been fantastic! Schools of trout are being found along grass flats and around piers and other structures in 3-5 ft of water, and flounder are becoming ever more common as this warm weather is rolling in! Also with this weather with water temps rising we will start to see…
“Rain or Shine it’s Time to Grind” Well August was as wet and cloudy as I have ever seen. As you see in this Dockside TV above we fish under adverse conditions as we did most of August. The thing to do on cloudy summer days is to put the Matrix Craw on…
August, well summer in general is a typical south east wind pattern with afternoon showers. This August so far is going against the grain of that theory with showers and storms starting early in the morning hours along with moderate west winds day after day. Already with a dirty and fresh Pontchartrain from the spillway’s…
This is a subject that many trophy trout anglers across the great state of Louisiana continue to discuss and try to figure out daily. So just where have the big trout gone in Louisiana. Is it the high rivers year after year? Maybe it’s the loss of land of our estuary. Could it…
