If you're willing to spare no expense to catch an ice chest full of speckled trout, Capt. Jack Payne has some advice for you: Buy way more live shrimp than you'll need, and use the trout candy as chum ...

No matter where you target specks, it’s hard to beat a paddletail soft-plastic, and the Sea Shad emits a strong vibration that these fish can’t resist. The One Knocker is a modern cousin of the ...

Like the old real-estate adage, fishing success in the summertime along Louisiana's coast basically comes down to three things: location, location and location. At nearly every productive platform, ...

Speckled trout are on the move this time of year, and that meant Capt. Charlie Thomason had to change his game plan to find them Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The ...

Catch limits for Louisiana's most popular fish are finally set to change after four years of discussion on how to address plummeting stocks for speckled trout -- and the controversial new rules will ...

More than a year after broaching the issue, state marine fisheries managers this past week officially proposed changes in fishing regulations aimed primarily at improving the quality of Texas speckled ...

We are now big time into some fishermen participating in wading in order to pursue trophy speckled trout. At one time it was a rare thing to see even a single angler wading in waist deep water trying ...

Fellow anglers, if you’re like me, you take pride in catching and releasing speckled trout with care. But even when we mean well, we can sometimes harm the fish without realizing it. Too much handling ...

The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has been tagging speckled trout to track the success of their stock enhancement program. Anglers who catch a tagged fish are asked to report the tag ...