Lake Pontchartrain guide Capt. John Falterman has been using a trout trailer called a Crappie Psychic to catch more speckled trout, redifsh, flounder and bass in the lower Pearl River. (Photo by Capt.

Brunning fishes the lure on either spinning or casting gear, and he uses braided line tied to a 7-foot fluorocarbon leader to help the Senko fall just a bit faster. To the leader, he ties a 4/0 hook ...

In an ordinary January, speckled trout aren't terribly selective. They're stacked up in deep holes that offer about as much to eat as the top of Mount Everest. When a bait happens along -- it doesn't ...

When trolled at slow to moderate speeds, the distinctive wide wiggle action has been drawing strikes longer than I’ve been alive. The split-tail design simulates an erratic baitfish action that even ...

Fall and winter are prime time for large speckled trout in Virginia. David McCleaf The middle of December, in the middle of the night, on a tidal creek in Chesapeake, Virginia, I stand on the bow of a ...