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…

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“Trout, Reds, Bass and Triple Tail All in One”

The hottest month of the year has now arrived.  Long days and hot water tempurates create complex fishing situations and trout fishing can really be tricky.  When chasing trout early starts are escential.  We like to focus on deep moving water during august.  The deeper the water and the more the current moves the cooler…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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“Suicide Month”

May is here and the fish are going crazy.  Every where we go lately it has been nuts.  When we have been staying on the bridges we have been catching limits.  When we fish other lake spots as mentioned on prior “Tip of the Week” articles they are producing limits.  We even went to delacroix…

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“Big Trout on the Moons”

Well our first major full moon has come and gone.  The front half of the moon was garbage.  Due to high winds, late fronts, high rivers and fresh water we did not see many big trout come through dockside with out a single 5 pounder.  The back side of the moon was ok on the…

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Destined for Destin

  With week after week of torrential rains, high winds and high rivers, it was time to take a road trip.  Kristi and I decided it was time to pack up a few rods and bag full of Matrix Shads and Golden Eye jig heads and get away from all the dirty and stained water in Lake Pontchatrain to…

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