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.
Coach Ernie Martin, 12 years of bass fishing the media circuit tournament fishing. Qualified 10 out of 12 years for championships. Currently a member of the Hub city Bassmasters and former member of the Crestview bass assoc. Won the 2012 cobia classic in Destin, Florida. Have taught fishing classes to elementary school, high school students…
Captain Eric Clark, owner of Clark Charters in Hackberry, LA, was born and raised in Sulphur, LA. Eric, The son of an avid freshwater fisherman, quickly learned that the Calcasieu Lake estuary provided so much more than freshwater fishing. Eric spends his springs, summers, and falls guiding; he also really enjoys using different techniques to…
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Trout Fired Up After Nate Pushes in Bait by: Joel Masson Hurricane Nate, fortunately, wasn’t much more than a little high water and rain for Southeast Louisiana, but for particular areas along thecoast, it had major impacts – in a good way.Nate brought in loads of super saltyGulf water, which carried with it a monstrosity of bait. All that…
While Waiting on Trout, Do This By Joel Masson: September and a lot of October can be more difficult for speckled trout anglers than Quantum Physics. And, as it’s shaping up this year, the lack of cold fronts will mean giant groups of specks will be challenging to locate. So, instead of beating…
On this episode of Dockside TV, we headed East attempting to flee the wrath of Hurricane Harvey, but soon found out that the wind and rain wasn’t quite going to miss us. We arrived in Perdido in the afternoon on Monday morning, and were immediately greeted with some nasty storms and some of the strongest…
Well everyone figured salinities would rise after another summertime tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico but that is not the reality from tropical storm Cindy. Cindy made landfall near the Lake Charles area, putting Lake Pontchartrain on the wet side of the storm. Although water levels did rise with the storm surge…
By: Sawyer The lady & I made a road trip up to Wisconsin, & then to Minnesota for a few days, last week to go to a wedding & to surprise our families. Luckily I managed to make it out fishing a couple nights as well. We made two trips to a stretch of the Yahara…
By: Joel Masson A few years back, Tag Louisiana started a program that allowed anglers to stick yellow tags in fish, with the potential of that fish being recaptured. The value of this program shows itself in many facets. For each recaptured fish, Tag Louisiana sends both the recipient and the original tagger a…
Hi everyone My name is Chris Miller from Slidell Louisiana.As like many people that grew up in Louisiana it didn’t take long for me to develop a passion for fishing growing up! I can remember when Chas was running dockside bait and tackle I’d go there to get live shrimp.Well one day he gave me…