Speckled Trout
Never underestimate topwaters’ potential
How to fish topwaters and truly understanding how their limitless upside allows you to fish them confidently for speckled trout. […]
Speckled Trout
Field Notes
The many benefits of using artificial shrimp
Whatever your preference, you’ll find artificial shrimp comprise a highly versatile lure family well deserving of prime space in your tackle tray. Here’s a handful of ideas for their use. […]
Speckled Trout
Three twitch baits that lure uncommitted trout
Below the surface twitch baits provide the perfect hybrid capability for those finicky spring topwater trout. […]
Speckled Trout
Flow from Bonnet Carré Spillway could push specks eastward
Speckled trout anglers have a lot to look forward to this spring, in part because the Bonnet Carré Spillway on the Mississippi River continues to pour out the remnants of a long, west winter. […]
Speckled Trout
Jerkbaits can give speckled trout fits
How to cast jerkbaits and get the merciless response that speckled trout exhibit after staring down its hard-plastic foe. […]
Speckled Trout
Are you angler enough to join the ‘Dirty 30’?
An exclusive club that honors anglers who land a benchmark 30-inch speckled trout. […]
Featured
How to fish deep holes for EASY fall and winter speckled trout limits
Jon Miller, a new Sportsman Field Reporter, knocks this instructional fall speckled trout video out-of-the-park. He launched out of Hopedale, La., last week and had a great trip. More importantly, Jon shows in great detail how to catch specks from October through January. The weather pattern for the next couple of weeks fits perfectly with this video.
Lure Review
The new Matrix Monster
Chas Champagne and charter boat captain Ty Hibbs, both Louisianians, were having a ball this summer catching jack crevalle and the occasional large speckled trout off the coast of Florida.
Featured
Speck event successful
A speckled trout tournament format, designed by fishermen for fishermen, proved successful this summer and could lead to a series of contests on the Mississippi coast in 2019.
Field Notes
Mystery baitfish revealed
We were fishing Delacroix, La., when a speckled trout coughed up this weird thing shown in the accompanying photo. Read on to learn what exactly it is — and why it’s important to you as an inshore angler.