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.
A pan-fisherman’s dream is to hit the stores very soon. The DockSide crew and captains are spending countless hours field testing the brand new Matrix Mini. Numerous fresh water lakes are producing beautiful freshwater fish such as crappie bass and blue gill. They are even field testing the Mini in salt water conditions. It has…
A pan-fisherman’s dream is to hit the stores very soon. The DockSide crew and captains are spending countless hours field testing the brand new Matrix Mini. Numerous fresh water lakes are producing beautiful freshwater fish such as crappie bass and blue gill. They are even field testing the Mini in salt water conditions. It has…
Owner operator of Anchored Design’s Fishing Apparel. Paul is one of the elite shallow water redfish anglers on gulf coast. He also won several redfish competitions with the owner and creator of Matrix Shad before the creation of the lure. He is a sight fishing machine.
Jigging the Tracks By: Tyler Hall When fishing for speckled trout in Lake Ponchartrain, two things in particular stand out in my mind. One being the train trestles and the other being jigging. There is no question that the combination of the two are deadly when it comes to trout fishing in the lake, and…
Jigging the Tracks By: Tyler Hall When fishing for speckled trout in Lake Ponchartrain, two things in particular stand out in my mind. One being the train trestles and the other being jigging. There is no question that the combination of the two are deadly when it comes to trout fishing in the lake, and…
Cant ask for better conditions and situations so far this fall. Huge redfish schools are going bananas all over the lake on nice calm days. Just simply look for the birds and hold on. If big trout is what you want, wait for your warmer days and pound the poles on the causeway and the…
Wether to go before the front or after is always a common question we receive through DockSide’s contact forum. This time of year as we enter our favorite month playing the front is the key. Once the trout station themselves in there late fall and winter time pattern after transitioning from the hot winter, Louisiana…
The perfect time of year, cool temps, football, and hungry fish. If you have been waiting on a good time to take off work and wet the boat there is no better time than now. What we are doing right now is simply popping corks, the “Boat Monkey Floats” with a Shrimp Creole Matrix…
By: Ty Hibbs “Coast to coast like French bread and toast”. Words a wise man once told me. Maybe meant as more of a joke, but little did I know those words would pertain to this trip as much as it did. I woke up to a call on a Wednesday morning from Chas telling…
brought to you by: MatrixShad.com Hot as you know what is what the last couple weeks have been. As soon as temps start to decline we will begin to search along the trestle for big doormat flounders. If the flounders have a poor migration this year we will…