Warmer and warmer everyday is making the trout reds and flounder fishing in Lake Pontchartrain really heat up.  We have been fishing the trestle for our better numbers on catching trout but our bigger fish have been coming from the far eastern shoreline of the lake as we have been seeing a few 4-5 pounders boated from this area.   We have really been doing well on the newest of Matrix Shads the  "Pink Champagne and Magneto" Make sure to be using the 3/8oz Golden Eye while fishing the … [Read more...]

Last few trips we have made in late Febuary we have had similar results.  The trestle has been very slow but the few we are catching are very nice trout.  What has been producing has been the shove line between Chef pass and Irish Bayou.  We have been getting about two cast distances off the marsh or rock shoreline and fan casting 5/16oz GOLDEN EYE jig heads attached to the midnight mullet MATRIX Shad and bouncing them off the bottom.  Every day we have tried it we have boxed 20-25 trout … [Read more...]

With water temps steadily dropping and fish moving the deeper waters, focus your efforts in areas that are surrounded with water depths of 30 plus foot.  These deeper water depths allow the fish to survive when hard freezes come through in the winter.  They will move to the shallows on the warmer winter days to feed and thats where you can load the boat with trout and reds.  Look for areas like LakeShore, Gohegans, Textron (Irish Bayou), and the ICW to stay hot unless water temps hit the … [Read more...]