Another year of fighting freshwater in the Pontchartrain Basin. This is beginning to be the norm, small trout runs before the fresh water from the Bonnet Carre Spillway and then targeting bass and reds once the river floods the lake. The days of the Lake to be known as trophy trout estuary are becoming a…
“Transition Time” August has past and gone and usually I am thrilled do get out of that dreadful month but this year was different. This August speckled trout unexpectedly showed up in several areas and I was pleasantly shocked. I personally started my mornings out in Lake Catherine each day drifting way off the banks…
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.…
Wether to go before the front or after is always a common question we receive through DockSide’s contact forum. This time of year as we enter our favorite month playing the front is the key. Once the trout station themselves in there late fall and winter time pattern after transitioning from the hot winter, Louisiana…
The perfect time of year, cool temps, football, and hungry fish. If you have been waiting on a good time to take off work and wet the boat there is no better time than now. What we are doing right now is simply popping corks, the “Boat Monkey Floats” with a Shrimp Creole Matrix…
” BIG GIRLS SHOWING FACE ” Its been a very long and hard fought spring so far this 2013′ but light is at the end of the tunnel. The high East and West Perl Rivers has played havoc on us Lake P anglers the last few months because of sky rocket high levels. Due to…
