Great catches lucky you, good eating.... butter,salt, garlic, wrapped in foil...yum

There he is. !!! All we true bass fishing dude's say this !!!

Glad you finally switched to the Shimano Curado!

Ty for the info you share with us I became a better speckle trout fishermen God bless

good job on letting the beautiful trout go. all the monster trout I have ever landed have been using top water lures

Great video as always. Action like that never gets old

Great video as usual. I really liked that you spent a few minutes talking about your lure selection.

Great trout Todd, even better release!!👍

I like your videos. Easy to follow and informative. Thank you

Great video and VERY nice trout. That's the size of the biggest trout I've personally caught, but the funny thing is, TRUE STORY....it was just one of those magical nights where my then brother-in-law and myself each limited out, ( this was back around 1986 or 87, so I can't recall if the limit was 6 fish or 9 fish each ) and every trout was between 3 and 5 lbs. Talk about a handsome stringer of fish. We had been fishing the inlet side of Sebastion Inlet late that afternoon, and nothing in particular was running, except birds picking off our live shrimp more than usual. The day was so bad, we decided to hit the bait shop & buy some more hand picked large live shrimp & try night fishing there, because the birds would be gone. We decided to stay fishing on the rocks just before the jetty structure begins. It was the one of the coldest nights of an unusually harsh winter for east/central Florida. For well over an hour in complete darkness, we hadn't got a bite from anything. Frustrated, my brother in law tied on a standard original Mirro-Lure & proceeded to catch a 4 lb trout on the 1st or 2nd cast. We told each other: "They have FINALLY arrived" and I was soaking that big live shrimp in total confidence now. But nothing bit. Darryl started catching nice trout of at least 3 lbs and had caught 3 to that point. We both thought that was odd, so I quickly tied on an identical Mirro-Lure on a separate rod. BAM.......right away, began catching large trout on about every 3rd cast, just like Darryl. Yet NOTHING would touch those large live shrimp still soaking on different rods. Weird I tell ya. Within 15 minutes or so, we both limited out, and not a single trout weighed less than 3 lbs, and nearly half of them were between 4 and 5 lbs!!! We kept fishing just for fun, catch & release, and continued to catch these whopper trout 1 right after the other, in hopes of a huge gator trout. This would continue for close to an hour, and we had the entire jetty to ourselves. But then Darryl slipped on the wet rocks while landing a fish and fell in that freezing cold water. His lips turned blue immediately and we had to leave to get him into some warm, dry clothes. We stopped at the bait shop that was still open, and everyone there flipped out at such an awesome stringer of BIG trout. The owner took our picture with the fish, and said we would DEFINITELY be the feature picture & story in Sunday's fishing report in the Florida Today Newspaper. But we got bumped due to someone catching a single 10 lb gator trout. But everyone agreed that OUR story was the more interesting, because NO ONE had predicted there would be such a nice trout run containing LARGE fish on that cold night. The very next winter when a major cold front had just pushed the temps way down, Darryl showed up at my door as a surprise, to go try the same thing at the same place. But I had other obligations & couldn't go. He shows up at my door the following morning right at sunrise, with a huge 9 lb 14 oz trout. But he said it was one of the very few trout that he caught all night. So we really did experience a magical night the year before. ( But of course a near 10 lb gator trout is nothing to scoff at, lol. ) Back around that time, I personally witnessed a huge trout in the holding tank at the bait shop, still perfectly healthy, that weighed just shy of 14 lbs. Folks, if you've never seen a spotted sea trout OVER 12 lbs alive in a tank.........it is a sight to behold. I can't recall it's exact measurement, but I know it had to be around 39" OR LONGER!!! And I was looking right down on it in a shallow holding tank, only inches from my eyes. ( This fish was soon released. ) NO WONDER they call the truly big ones: "Gator Trout"...........they are awesome to see. And VERY rare these days.

Keep up the good work there. Always enjoy you catching fish there.👍

Good videos! Keep them coming, they are keeping me going til I'm able to hunt/fish in January, ha

Always look forward to the videos and learning a bit more. Thanks man and keep up the good work !!!

Awesome video Todd!!! That was a fine trout!

Another great video, probably my favorite you’ve done. Keep em coming M3!

That was a huge fish!

Always enjoy your videos and your insight. Thank you

You had me in the moment with you... that was unbelievable dude

Another great video, my biggest trout this year is only 19".

Top five MMM video I think. A little bit of everything and it was all good. I’ve been trying to mimic your jigging style and it’s really paying off. Slammed the trout last Friday doing my best marsh man impression. I feel like the tips I’ve picked up watching your videos have really accelerated my learning curve.

Great video!

Great video Mr. Masson!

Great first catch!!

Biggin'. What a Trout? Nice Vid as Always...Tight Lines

I'm a new subscriber ,and I love Louisiana fishing, can't get there enough,you are in paradise my friend, great day on the bayou.🎣🎣👍👍👍

Great trip, going Wednesday morning, just back from 3 days on the deer lease ready for some trout.

Great video

That was very relaxing.. love your videos dude!!...you speak our southern language and we get it man !!!!

Great video!! Have fun in Florida. Had the chance to participate in the Florida bull red run in 2016. Great fun. Social fishing, you get to meet you fellow fisherman during lulls. Clark King

Good info

What's amazing is the lack of boats about on the Saturday after Thanksgiving--as for keeping the bass, I think the marsh bass are maybe the best frying fish out there

Beautiful trout...awesome release.

Dude!!! You killed it!

Nice video keep it up!

Ha, I started to recognize the “latter” area you fished. Have done well in that area on reds.

Great video. Love those specks. We were getting monsters every time out on Pine Island Sound before the red tide wiped them out. I have had to shift my focus further south to the 10k islands.

Todd,im sure you have some but i keep a pair of clear safety glasses for the early boat ride because of the bugs/gnats some mornings.Great video once again ,keep them coming!!

I'll be glad when you or Chas comes to mobile alabama. And find our gator trout ain't seen none yet

Good stuff, I'm curious to try that color matrix in my local bayou here in Biloxi

SWEET !

Wow man

Love your videos. Do you change you your treble hooks when you buy new top water lure? If so what brand do you prefer?

Great video...Question: Were you working your baits on the bottom? Thanks for sharing.

Bout time you catch a Texas keeper bro. I feel like my recent heckling pushed you in the right direction.

Super spook jr. never lets me down

show us how you spool your spinning reel thanks todd

Enjoyed this show a lot. You are something else. Just wandering that is not your Fitzgerald rod and not using braid?

Awesome video! Is the bayou out of Hopedale?

Awesome video Masson! You're kid shoot his own soft plastics? If I may ask...what mold is that swim bait?? Thanks and tight lines brother!

I Understand but I want a 4 lb trout so bad. Just started about a year and a half ago so just getting started. I just caught my first trout 2 weeks back. Going out this Thursday. Hoping for the best Marco Island area.

I see your spot lock makes a lot of noise and water movements like mine. I guess all you can do is stay back from area you want to fish and make longer cast?

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Awesome video, I wish you would say where you launch on your videos but I understand why you don’t.

My biggest trout this year 24”

I've often wondered why our marsh bass don't get that big - it certainly isn't due to a lack of food. Perhaps it's because, unlike a typical lake, they aren't at the top of the food chain; the competition with redfish, etc limits their size, and perhaps as you mentioned, their life span. I know that's the case with trout in the Smokies - the rocks are so old, all the nutrients have been leached out, so the water isn't that fertile, and there is just so many groceries to go around. The whole life span is sped up, so that a 3 year old fish is past middle age.

We call them "gator trout" when they get that big !

Hell of a trout! What reel are you using to catch it? Is that a bantam?

Take me out please 👏

Are you right handed. Noticed you casting w right hand and reeling w left. Do you have video on casting techniques

What brand of pliers is that? They look good.

Nice trout weight it

What rod is that you are using? Specs on it?

Will either specs or reds take tube stile baits?

Marsh Man Masson for some reason my phone won’t let me reply to the other string of comments that we had but the email that I received from Tag Louisiana says that the tagged redfish that I caught last Saturday was originally caught and tagged on 3/17/18 by someone named Andre Thomas and the fish was 14.5 inches when it was tagged so it grew 5 inches in 252 days.

Hey Todd, I heard you use a term in your video I’ve never heard (might be cuz I live in VA)... it sounded like you said Tranas, did I spell it right?... what is it a marsh drain? And is it a French word? New subscriber as of today, grew up in Metairie. Need to come back and fish! Do you do guide services? Love the vids! Looking forward to the next one. Ps- biggest VA slob trout 24” on Bass Assassin Chicken on a chain color 1/4oz gig head tickling the bottom. She was so fat she literally looked like a football! 🎣 🏈 haha

What kind of line you use for your leader?

Marsh Man Masson seen you tag several fish in your videos and was wondering if the tags that you use are Tag Louisiana tags?

Hello sir can you tell me what's your preferred lure for trout top water.

Prettier than your second grade girlfriend😂 Gr8 tag Masson👍

why dont u keep big trout like that first one just a question

Gotta be careful not to get a hook in the hand too.

do you and your son make baits for matrix

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Can anyone tell me why these were named speckled trout, when they are not in the trout or salmon family?

If you do not want to kill a big trout don't keep it out of the water as long as you did

I'm really curious why people down south think that's ok to grab a fish by the gills when releasing a fish.. Enjoy your videos man, but that is not good fishing etiquette. Tight lines

For the love of GOD put the damn fish back in the water!!!!!

SOrry dude but way too slow in getting that fish back in the water! Catch and release, please be faster! thanks...

I let the big females over 20" go myself . Nice going and submit it to Releaseover20.com

wtf is a speckled trout! thoght I knew all trout species

Great video !