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 ...

Sure enough, I'm throwing a Matrix Shad, and I was getting short strikes. I picked up one fish, but I kept getting hits and couldn't hook them. "That bird wasn't a hundred yards from me, and it was a ...

Avid sac-a-lait angler Brian Baldwin caught most of his fish during a Monday trip on blue horizon-colored Matrix Minis. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (Todd Masson) Matrix Minis ...