Soft plastics are sometimes even more productive than live bait for redfish. Courtesy Z-Man Saltwater fishing lures are versatile, offering nearly unlimited ways to target inshore and offshore species ...

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 ...