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.
The IFA grand isle stop was coming up and team matrix knew they were gonna need some serious weight to compete with the rest of the field. The desicion was made to run to delacroix where we had found 16lbs almost blindly so we were gonna fish basically blind due to high staind water. Come…
It sure has been a while for South Louisiana residents to remember a year completely hurricane free. Hopefully, with the most active month approaching, we can get lucky enough to steer clear of mother nature this year. The last two labors day weekends for DockSide has consisted of cleaning up hurricane debris around the…
Crab boom attracts redfish into Chef Pass marshes by: Todd Mason
The hottest month of the year has now arrived. Long days and hot water tempurates create complex fishing situations and trout fishing can really be tricky. When chasing trout early starts are escential. We like to focus on deep moving water during august. The deeper the water and the more the current moves the cooler…
After a three months of Destin calling our name to come back, Kristi and I couldn’t take it any more and we had to go back. We packed the Panga up with Matrix Shads and fuel and headed east. After a four hour ride we arrived excited and determined to catch a trophy trout in…
If it is trout you are looking for in the month of July make sure to focus deep. Light tides in the Rigolets passes should be your focal points. If you arrive to your spot and the tides are running too strong simply go bounce the rigs in lake borgne or chase triple tail on…
Scott & Baylie Comeaux pre fished Friday out in the sound in hopes that the weather man was going to be wrong in their favor. Here is what he had to say about the Mandeville Speckled Trout Tournament: “We caught some good trout. One of the fish my daughter caught was pushing 6 lbs. so…
With recent temps in the high 90’s and heat indexes reaching 110′, the trout have seemed to taper off but the redfish have been carrying the slack. All of this years abundant rainfall mixed with recent hot water temps has caused the underwater grass in all the bayous and ponds to bloom from the Inter…
Avoiding massive crowds has been the trick to success of late especially if throwing plastics is your forte. Boat traffic as always has been strong throughout may and fishing the weekends has been very tuff on anglers who can’t get their hands on live shrimp, but anglers getting away from the trestle and finding…