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.
Captain’s Chris and Charlie aren’t just inshore enthusiast, but a father-son duo of speckled trout purist. They’ve not only spent their angling careers pursuing speckled trout, but have instead, dedicated their lives to sharing their knowledge, passion and pursuit with other anglers in their own way. Capt Chris, a Major in the Air Force, owns…
Having grown up fishing the marshes of St. Bernard, Captain Devin feels most at home when he is cruising down familiar waters like Bayou LaLoutre and Baker’s Canal. Today he owns and operates Swamp Stallion Fishing Adventures, where he finds satisfaction in putting his customers on great fishing action. He is a staunch Louisiana patriot…
Live Shrimp Season is now here and that’s what the trout want. The north end of trestle has been this weeks hot spot but check out Capt Kristian’s 5.5 pounder he caught near the Hospital wall saturday while fishing with live DockSide shrimp.
The bridges are still the place to be but the size of the trout have been small for lake pontchartrain this week. The midnight mullet has been the hot Matrix Shad this week and the 174 area has been the ticket especially on the incoming tide. Live Shrimp Season starts may 1st so look for…
Make sure to take a peak at hwy 11 and new twin span when trestle gets over fished and crowded. These two bridges are not as consistent as trestle but sure are great back up spots when trestle is busy. Check recent video on dockside live as Jonathan and I killed the trout on hwy…
Make Sure to keep ur eyes peeled when fishing the Lake with low stormy clouds this time of year as water spouts like this one can pop out of no-where.
Catches of multiple 4 to 5 pound trout have been coming through everyday out of DockSide. Big numbers and catching limits have been a rarity but the size and quality of the well known “Lake Pontchartrain Pigs” are right on time. We have been using the “Midnight Mullet” Matrix Shad a lot and producing plenty of…
Hotter and hotter the lake gets day by day as march started off a little slow but picking up to full steam as of right now. March 27 was the first day we saw a two man limit of 50 trout come through DockSide this March. Trout have been smaller on north end and…
Warmer and warmer everyday is making the trout reds and flounder fishing in Lake Pontchartrain really heat up. We have been fishing the trestle for our better numbers on catching trout but our bigger fish have been coming from the far eastern shoreline of the lake as we have been seeing a few 4-5 pounders…
We fished the tracks on wed. In 15-25 mph winds. What the bridges act as is a barrier on a SE wind. U can always hug the trestle on the west side and use it to block the waves on ur way to the southshore. Once u get to the south end the land protects…