Up until the late 1990s, only Slidell-area locals knew who Dudley Vandenborre was. He was the dude who always caught such big speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain using a soft-plastic lure he designed ...

Seatrout are suckers for soft plastics like this Z-Man Trout Thick Trick. Z-Man Spotted seatrout lures come in a wide array of styles because trout are generally more than willing to slam an ...

Catching trophy-sized speckled trout on topwater lures is no less exhilarating than hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth to win game seven of the World Series. There's just something about ...