The Pontchartrain estuary is making a turn to be a fall and winter big trout hot spot now the MRGO is closed. It used to be known as the place to be to catch wall hangers all through the spring and summer but the last few years have shown differently. It now seems the…
When to Troll, When to Jig Most of you that know us at www.MatrixShad.com know that we mostly jig soft plastics along the bridges of lake Pontchartrain but this time of year it may be a little different. This is a time you may want to try a different technique called trolling. Trolling lures behind the boat…
Crappie season is now in full swing as these taste pan fish are starting to set up for their annual spawn. This is the best time of year to focus on slab sacalait.
Although Christmas has come and gone and we are already far along on another new year it is now that “Tis the Season” for the sacalait. What most of the nation calls the the “white perch” or “crappie”, here in south Louisiana it is aka the “sacalait” which is french for “sack of milk”…
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…
Wow!!! 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…
This 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…
Well 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.…
We 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…
Well 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…
