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 ...

Speckled trout lures can be used to catch seatrout as far north as Southern New Jersey and as far south as Northern Mexico. But the sweet spot for these popular gamefish is from the Carolinas, around ...