this may interest you 3F. I live in Slidell too.
Dudley Vandenborre passed away on August 6, 2016 at the age of 87 in Slidell, Louisiana. His Deadly Dudley soft plastics are still sold here.
I had no idea that he had passed, nor that he was that close to that age. I fished South LA (Cocodrie, Fourchon, Golden Meadow, Grand Isle) regularly through about 2010 and he was still going strong at that time. Hate to hear of his passing.