Laravel 5.1 Session not passing

I have a simple success message on store to DB.

\Session::flash('info', 'Success! Words created');

now if I var_dump the session and return that, great.

As soon as I move to another view. Session info is gone!

I've tried all sorts, I'm on laravel 5.1.

looked into the middleware groups but i just get blank pages when adding routes in here..

via Chebli Mohamed