“Lazy Days” (With Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWuCu6QPE6M   West winds have been relentless so far this June, but believe it or not fishing has stayed par for us in Lake Pontchartrain.  Salinity continues to stay down but school trout and puppy drum continue to over take the lake.  Catches out of DockSide have been plenty good enough for us to continue pounding…

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Mixed Bag and School Trout

Well May has come and gone and pretty summer weather has taken its place across Lake Pontchartrain.  Calm wind and  hot temps is what you will expect from here on out.   Live shrimp have finally become available and anglers using them out of DockSide are doing well while using them.   If you are…

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“Big Trout Starting Up” (With Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAUXcLTodmg This April has been full of freshwater and small male trout.  The Pearl River has been flooding into Lake Pontchartrain making it very hard to find the mule trout the Lake is so known for.   We are now at the end of April and we just started catching some fat pregnant trout.  Numbers…

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A few Big Trout Showing Face

Its been a while since we seen some mules showing face in the lake but after a while and long winter we are finally starting to pick off some solid trout.  We boated our 1st 5 pounder of the year on a beautiful day in late March.  Bait of Choice has been Ultra Violet Matrix…

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“The Big Trout Run” (With Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEy9F3yRS84 Well its about time.  Some warm and long spring days ahead and cold rainy and sleet days behind.  What a tuff winter we had and how happy are all of us that spring is finally here.  So far this spring it has been typical a few trout here and there on the better of…

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Transitioning Trophies

  Spring is finally here and so are some big trout.  We have already made some impressive catches on the bridges and shorelines in the eastern part of the Lake.  A nice warming trend in late February triggered the big sows to start there annual gorge.  What trout like to do this time of year is…

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“From Red to Green”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAcdq47Tzzk Between the Ice Storms, the wind and rain and even threats of snow the Lake Pontchatrain estuary is still giving up good redfish catches through out the month of February.  The marsh off Irish Bayou has been productive for reds and bass where and so has the Chalmette area.  The new wall and old…

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