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.

Lets Hope to Dodge a Storm

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…

Back to Destin

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…

High Heat Makes Redfish Eat

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…

“Between the Bridges”

    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…