Its about time!!! Big trout on all three bridges in eastern Lake Pontchartrain. The days of having to only fish the trestle with everyone piled up on one bridge on top one another may be switching patterns. For years and years eastern Lake Pontchartrain was known for fertile grounds of big trout roaming all three bridges to…
DetailsWow!!! What an amazing start to the fall/winter run this 2016′ year in Lake Pontchartrain. By far the best trout season we have seen in the Pontchartrain estuary in the past five dreadful years. The weather has started off fantastic this fall with basically zero precipitation for two entire months allowing all the rivers…
DetailsThis is the time of the year to put the soft plastics up for a few weeks and pull out your hard bait box. Speckled trout across the entire Gulf coast really favor top waters and suspending jerk baits throughout the transition months of early fall until true fall or winter temperatures set in. The…
DetailsWell the Pontchartrain Basin is notoriously known for deep water, heavy jig heads and fishing the bottom. Well throw all that out the window in October. White shrimp are moving into the interior marshes and outside shorelines and there is not a better way to mimic the sound of a shrimp than a popping cork.…
DetailsWe are far from experts on catching flounder on the beach front but after the last few days it seemed like we were doing something right. The Matrix family headed to a little labor day beach vacation this weekend and the family included of the boys, the wife and I and the plus one, the…
DetailsWell the end of a rather dry summer has came to a close with the most rain the great state of Louisiana has seen in hundreds of years or more. The people of the Baton Rouge area was hit with 20-40 inches of rain in just 48 hours and caused drastic flooding from the Amite…
DetailsMatrix Shad users had great success this weekend while using Matrix and Vortex products at the 2016′ Faux Pas Invitational inshore divisions. The ”Creme De La Creme” of this tournament’s categories is the inshore Grand Slam Calcutta. This category is for the largest combined weight of a flounder, trout and slot red fish. This year…
DetailsIt has been a good sign of late with signs of life showing great progress in Lake Pontchartrain. Small shrimp sightings are being reported under diving birds all over the lake and it is only July. This is a very good sign for things to come for this upcoming fall. When running around the…
DetailsWatch video above for tips to target reds on high water situations. Watch video above for tips to target reds on low water situations. With the spectacular weather we have been having to close out the end of June the water quality and salinity levels have spiked and conditions are making a 180 turn…
DetailsIf you are trying to figure out a game plan when the weather gives you heat, low water and west winds read this great story by Todd Masson on fishing under these conditions Make sure to watch video also.
