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Discover the ultimate fishing adventure with the "Gulf of Mexico, Texas Fishing Report Today" podcast. Tune in daily for the latest updates on fishing conditions, expert tips, and local insights specific to the vibrant waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Texas coast. Stay informed on weather patterns, fish migrations, and tackle recommendations to enhance your fishing experience. Perfect for avid anglers and fishing enthusiasts looking to make the most of their time on the water. Join us for your essential guide to successful fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and Texas. For more info go to https://www.quietperiodplease.com/ Get all your gear befoe you leave the dock Also check out https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/time-in-city-news-info/id6692631879 and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/what-to-do-in-city-guides/id6615091666 This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

  1. Jan 21

    Gulf Fishing Forecast: Tides, Solunar, and Hot Spots for Stripers, Drum, and More

    🛒 Cozy Earth - Luxurious bamboo sheets, pajamas, & more 💰 Get 21% OFF | Promo Code: POINT https://cozyearth.com/discount/POINT --- # Your Best Damn Fishing Report Alright y'all, this is Artificial Lure with your Gulf of Mexico fishing update, and let me tell you, we've got some solid conditions rolling in today. **Tides and Sun** Port Aransas is showing a high tide at 2:06 AM this morning with a low tide hitting around 10:44 AM. Over at Freeport, we're looking at decent solunar activity with a coefficient of 71—that's high activity, folks. Sunrise came in at 7:08 AM down in Galveston, and you're looking at sunset around 7:38 PM, giving us a solid 12 hours and 30 minutes of daylight to work with. **What's Biting** Here's where it gets interesting. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department records show Galveston Bay's been producing some serious fish. We're talking striped bass pushing 28 pounds, black drum over 50 pounds, and some gorgeous red drum hitting 44 pounds. More recently, spotted seatrout, sheepshead, and black drum have been putting up solid numbers. The junior anglers have been crushing it too—some impressive red drum and black drum catches just this past year. **Your Arsenal** For tackle, you want to think soft plastics and live bait. Drop-shot rigs with green pumpkin and goby-colored baits are working wonders right now. Berkley PowerBait and soft plastics rigged on light jig heads are solid choices. If you're throwing live bait, croaker, mullet, and live shrimp are your bread and butter for redfish and drum. Spinnerbaits like the Rocket Shad will cover water fast and get those aggressive strikes you're looking for. **Hot Spots** Hit up San Luis Pass—those shallow flats are cooking right now with the solunar activity peaking. Also check out the deeper structure near Alligator Point in West Bay. Both spots have been producing consistent catches throughout the season. Water's cooperating, the biting window is solid, and the fish are active. Get out there and make it happen. Thanks for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe for daily updates on what's working in these waters. This has been a Quiet Please production—for more, check out quietplease.ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn --- 🛒 Cozy Earth - Luxurious bamboo sheets, pajamas, & more 💰 Get 21% OFF | Promo Code: POINT https://cozyearth.com/discount/POINT This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    2 min

  2. 12/04/2025

    Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Trout, Reds, and More in the Bays

    Well howdy, folks! Artificial Lure here bringing you your Thursday morning fishing report for the Gulf Coast. Let me tell you, we've got some excellent conditions shaping up after that cold front rolled through yesterday. Water temperatures are hovering in the low 70s across most of the bays—perfect for December fishing. Sunrise this morning came at 7 AM sharp, and we're looking at sunset around 5:15 PM, so you've got a solid window to get out there. Let's talk tides. We're coming off a high tide early this morning, with low tide hitting around mid-morning. The tidal coefficient is holding strong, which means good movement and excellent feeding windows. Now here's the real action. San Antonio Bay is firing on all cylinders right now—marked as GOOD by the guides. That strong cold front pushed a ton of trout and redfish into the flats and back lakes. East and West Matagorda Bay are also GOOD, with high tides putting fish in the back lakes and around the docks. Port Aransas is reporting GOOD conditions with redfish responding well to live shrimp, cut mullet, and silver spoons. For your artificials, grab some plastics in thigh to belly-button deep water for trout. Gulp shrimp under a popping cork is absolutely money right now. Live shrimp is your go-to bait—every guide mentions it. Dead shrimp on drop-offs works too if you're targeting redfish and drum. Those mullet patterns are producing mixed bags including sheephead and mangrove snapper. My hot spots for today: Hit the flats and back lakes in San Antonio Bay—the high tides have concentrated fish something fierce. Second, work the docks in East Matagorda along the Colorado River when conditions get rough. Both are prime real estate right now. Thanks so much for tuning in, folks! Don't forget to subscribe for daily reports. This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease.ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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  3. 11/21/2025

    Gulf Coast Fishing Forecast: Late Fall Bounty in the Texas Bays

    Artificial Lure here with your Gulf of Mexico, Texas fishing report for Friday, November 21, 2025. We’re looking at classic late-fall conditions on the coast, and the bite’s kicking up just in time for those pre-Thanksgiving trips. Let’s start with the tides: According to Tides4Fishing, today at Freeport we have a low tide peaking around 8:58 AM and a high tide hitting 6:06 PM. That means you’ll want to target moving water late morning and then again as that tide starts pushing hard in the evening. The sunrise rolled in at 6:49 AM, and sunset will clock out at 5:24 PM, so plan your outings with that early window if you want the topwater action. Weather this morning is cool and crisp, with highs around the upper 60s to low 70s—bring a jacket, but you’ll be peeling layers as the day goes on. Winds are expected to be light to moderate out of the north, switching east through the afternoon—a perfect setup for jetty and bay fishing, especially with those clean skies and stable barometer. Now, for what’s biting: The Port Aransas and Corpus Christi area is lighting up with big redfish—both slot-size and oversized bulls. Texas Fishing Tips reports a flurry of action near the jetties; a mix of bull reds, slot reds, plus sand trout and the occasional black drum are in the cards. There’s steady croaker action too, so if you’re after big golden croaker, it’s a good time to tangle with them. The back docks and marshy corners are piled with mullet, and anywhere you find that bait, redfish and black drum are hanging close beneath. Over at Klein’s Landing and all along the East Flats, you’ll find lots of pods of feeding reds and drum, especially on the outgoing tide as the sun gets higher. Recent catches around the jetties and bay systems have included solid numbers of upper-slot reds, with a few pushing into the “over 30-inch” range. Sand trout and speckled trout are also mixed in, especially around deeper channels and near oyster reefs. The brown roof flats and Estes area have seen robust numbers of redfish, and both live and cut baits are turning heads. Captain Monte Graham specifically notes live shrimp and cut mullet as best bets, but folks are also doing well cutting up ladyfish and fishing those chunks near the bait schools—simple but effective. On the lure front, a gold or chartreuse spoon is always a reliable bet for reds right now, and soft plastic paddletails in natural mullet or newpenny colors are getting a lot of takes. If you’re hunting speckled trout, opt for a suspending twitchbait or a 5" soft plastic in white or glow when the water’s clear, with a little added scent for bonus attention. For bait, live shrimp is the ticket for mixing drum and reds, but don’t overlook cut mullet or cut ladyfish if you’re targeting something bigger or want to fish the bottom around current. Hot spots to check out today: Hit the Port Aransas jetties (but watch for ship traffic—it’s picking up with the low tides), especially near Klein’s Landing and those gr This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    4 min

  4. 11/17/2025

    Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Snapper, Reds, and Trout on the Bite

    Artificial Lure here, bringing your boots-on-the-deck Gulf of Mexico, Texas fishing report for Monday, November 17th, 2025. We kicked off the morning with a brisk sunrise at 6:46 AM, and we’ll see sunset at 5:26 PM. The forecast calls for clear skies and light winds settling out of the north—ideal fall weather in coastal Texas. Waters are running cool, down into the low 70s, with the air crisp and dry, giving fish a good reason to feed up during daytime warming. Tide-wise, it’s a lively cycle today. Over in Freeport and the upper coast, we’ve got a low tide at 7:14 AM (0.3 ft) and high tide running in at 3:11 PM (1.9 ft), while Texas City is set for a low at 8:52 AM and the afternoon high at 4:22 PM, peaking around 1.5 ft according to Tide-Forecast and Tides4Fishing. It’s a moving water kind of day, with solunar charts rating bite activity “high” into the late afternoon—a sure sign to be on the water, especially when those tides flip. The state red snapper season’s still open, but federal waters will close this Friday, November 21st, per Texas Parks & Wildlife. So if you’re looking for that snapper dinner, get after those rigs and nearshore wrecks now. Most snapper boats this past weekend reported decent numbers—keepers averaging 7–12 pounds, with plenty of action on cut menhaden and squid dropped to bottom structure. Inshore, Corpus Christi and Galveston reports are stacking up redfish cruising the flats at first light. Limits were pulled near Bird Island and Packery Channel under popping corks rigged with live shrimp, and there’s a good flounder push happening around channel edges and marsh drains. Black drum and sheepshead hung tight to pilings and rocky shoreline, especially at the jetties and harbor cuts. Speckled trout have been active, especially early and late. Trout hit best over grass beds and potholes, hitting soft plastics—white and chartreuse paddle tails do the job on a 1/8–¼ oz jighead. Topwater plugs turned magic at dawn when the wind dropped. Most trout caught this week were nice “keeper” size, with some slabs measuring up to 25 inches in the lower bay. If you’re surf-fishing, the Port Aransas and Bolivar jetties have seen a steady run of bull reds in the outgoing tide. They’re crushed finger mullet and cut shad—try an 8/0 circle hook under a sliding sinker for those big boys. Best baits: Inshore, you can’t go wrong with live shrimp, finger mullet, or soft plastic jerkbaits. For reds, a gold spoon or paddle tail worked along shorelines is classic. Offshore, snapper are striking cut bait and squid. The bayou bass and drum are hot on shrimp-tipped jigs and cut crab. Hot spots to hit today: - Packery Channel and JFK Causeway spoil islands for prime redfish and flounder. - The Freeport jetties and Galveston Channel, where trout and sheepshead are stacked. - South-side Bird Island flats for topwater trout and tailing reds at sunrise. Quick tip: Watch for birds working near channels and spoil banks—that always means bait, and This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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  5. 11/15/2025

    November 15th Gulf of Mexico Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, and Offshore Action Heating Up

    Good morning, Texas anglers—this is Artificial Lure with your November 15th Gulf of Mexico fishing report, coming to you local and straight. We’re canning this early with a sunrise at 6:44 AM and sunset rolling around 5:26 PM, so there’s a nice, long window to get lines wet today. The tides are rolling steady: low tide at 6:31 AM, rising to a 1.6-foot high at 1:04 PM, and dropping off again at 7:17 PM according to Tides4Fishing for Freeport. Midday current movement looks solid—tide reports always say pay attention to that push if you’re chasing action. Weather’s in your corner too. National Weather Service says we’re sitting with light south winds, 5 to 10 knots, and mild seas at 2 to 3 feet out of Freeport to Matagorda. That means almost anyone can run out, and bay water temps are seasonable—clearer and cooler, which can fire up the bite. Later today, a breeze might pick up in the afternoon but nothing too wild yet, so get your casts in early. Let’s talk about the fish. This is the prime window for redfish and speckled trout in the bays and close to jetties. Recent reports from Lone Star Outdoor News and local guides say slot reds have been thick at the Bolivar Flats and around the south shoreline of West Bay. The jetties at Galveston and the surf on Matagorda Peninsula are both producing, too. Most boats coming in off the water this week are putting three to four keeper reds and just as many legal specks on ice per angler. Flounder catches are still decent in the guts along the marsh, especially coming out on the falling tide. Don’t overlook offshore action. The federal snapper season’s still open until November 21st, so now’s the last call to boat a few nice reds before it shuts down in deep waters. Recent offshore trips out of Port O’Connor and Freeport have put up good numbers of snapper, along with some scattered kingfish near oil rigs—best on long drifts with live or dead pogies. For baits, it’s a classic November shuffle. If you’re wading or running shallow, soft plastic paddletails (white or chartreuse) on a 1/8-ounce jig do the trick for trout, and Gulp shrimp bounced slowly over shell is deadly for reds. Live shrimp under popping corks keep producing, especially around marsh drains, while finger mullet or crab chunks are top for soaking hooks on deeper channels for bull reds. Offshore, drop down squid or cigar minnows for snapper, or troll spoons for kings. Hot spots today? If you’re fishing close, do not skip the Galveston Causeway bridge lights at first light, or run out to San Luis Pass and work the drop-offs. For wade anglers, the flats from Jamaica Beach east toward Snake Island Cove have been holding fish at first light. Want to get offshore? The Freeport Liberty Ships reef is holding snapper, and the Matagorda nearshore rigs have been crowded with kings and an occasional mahi in the bluewater edge. Fish are feeding up ahead of these cold fronts so the next several days look prime. Don’t forget, as water temps steadily d This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    4 min

  6. 11/13/2025

    Breezy Fishing Along the Texas Gulf Coast - Trout, Reds, and More Biting Strong

    This is Artificial Lure coming to you with your Thursday November 13th, 2025, Gulf Coast Texas fishing report. The air’s got that early winter snap, but the fish are still biting and the conditions are primed for another classic day along the coast. We had a **sunrise at 6:43 AM** and you can look for sunset at **5:27 PM** tonight. Tides are moving gentle today—the Freeport and Galveston sections are showing a **morning high around 6:11-9:20 AM** at 1.3 to 1.4 feet, with a **low just before dinner at 4:38 PM** down to about 0.7 feet, and then a bump back up late at night. Tide-forecast.com, TIDES4FISHING, and NOAA reports show similar timing in Houston and Texas City. That’s a good spread—these minor swings with stable barometric pressure should keep fish active, especially through the mid-morning and that late afternoon push. Weather’s treating us right: **mid-60s to low 70s, mostly clear skies, and south winds 10 to 15 knots** across most nearshore spots according to the National Weather Service. Reasonable waves and manageable wind—enough to push bait up onto the flats and into eddy pockets, but not enough to muddy up the water. Let’s talk fish. The bite’s been solid all week. **Redfish Bay, San Antonio Bay, and Galveston areas are rated “good” all around**, with water sitting around 65-75 degrees depending if you’re on surf or bay. Reports from Rockport and Texas City show the daily haul’s been mainly **speckled trout, redfish, some croaker, and a decent run of sand trout** still hanging on. Schools are working the birds—if you see birds divebombing, pull up quick and toss in. In Upper Galveston Bay, there are a mix of trout and redfish coming off shallow grass ledges, most caught on **live shrimp under a popping cork or artificial lures like the DownSouth Supermodel in “Big Poppa Pearl” and Texas Custom Lure Double D in “Bay Mistress"**. Freeport Harbor’s giving up good numbers of **redfish, trout, sheepshead, and the occasional mangrove snapper**, with best action on mullet or shrimp. Wade fishing along the Texas City levee and Mosquito Island has stayed productive day after day—**live shrimp and finger mullet are still your best bet there**. Drifting Bastrop and Christmas Bays, especially over the sandy edges near grasslines, has put anglers on solid trout and red drum. A few hot tips for today: - **Galveston beachfront and jetties**: Bull reds on **fresh dead shad** or live crabs; good slot drum and trout in the mix. - **Texas City Dike/Mosquito Island**: Wade early for trout on plastics, switch to live bait as the sun climbs. - **Bastrop Bay**: Drift with **gulp shrimp** or paddle tails when you spot mullet schools. Some of the best recent action’s come on **DownSouth Supermodel, Texas Custom Lure Double D, and gulp shrimp under a popping cork**. For natural bait, you can’t go wrong with **live shrimp or finger mullet**—both are drawing trout and redfish, while dead shrimp will pick up drum or the occasional sheepshead. Catfi This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    4 min

  7. 11/09/2025

    "Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, and Flounder Biting Strong on the Fall Bite"

    Artificial Lure reporting for the Gulf of Mexico, Texas coast, Sunday, November 9th, 2025. It’s a cool, calm morning with sunrise at 6:38 AM and sunset rolling in early at 5:27 PM. That gives you a generous window for chasing reds, trout, and flounder before the evening chill. We’ve got a low tide rolling through Texas City right around 1:29 PM, and your incoming high tops out a bit before midnight at 11:06 PM, lending itself to productive fishing from mid-morning through the afternoon slack tide, then picking back up as water starts to move this evening, according to tide-forecast.com. Weather this morning started in the low 60s, with light southeasterly winds turning calm by midday. Skies are mostly clear, and water temps are holding between 82 and 87 degrees inshore—just about perfect for fall bites, as noted by Lone Star Outdoor News. The bite’s on for **redfish**, with solid reports from Redfish Bay, Galveston Bay, and down to Matagorda. Anglers are hooking up using cut mullet and live shrimp near deeper guts and marsh drains. Slot reds and the occasional bull have been landed in Galveston and West Bay on mullet, with best action during moving tides. **Speckled trout** are heating up over shell in both East and West Galveston Bays. The live shrimp under popping cork is gold, but soft plastics, particularly in natural “glow” or chartreuse, are hot picks as per recent catches in the Texas Parks & Wildlife Galveston record logs. Flounder are showing fair, sliding into their fall migration. Soft plastics on a slow bounce, live mullet, and even shrimp-imitating twitch baits are working great along sandy points and at passes. Freeport and Bolivar surf zones are producing both flounder and black drum. Don’t pass up a chance for a bonus mangrove snapper or sheepshead around jetties using shrimp or fiddler crabs. Noteworthy: this week’s cooler snap has kept bait schools tight inshore, rewarding those willing to wait through slack tide—recent local catches include red drum up to 43 inches on cut mullet in Galveston, solid slot specks up to 26 inches on live shrimp, and southern flounder pushing 5 pounds on finger mullet. **Top lures** for today: - Paddle tail soft plastics in white or chartreuse for specks and reds, especially when water clarity is good. - Shrimp imitations or live shrimp are a must for drum, sheepshead, and picky trout. - Topwaters early over grass flats if you start before 9 AM—bone or chrome-colored. - For flounder, use Gulp! swimming mullets or scented jerk shads fished low and slow. If you want to target numbers, fish the guts and shell pads around **San Luis Pass** and the grass lines near **South Deer Island**—both have been producing steady mixed bags all week. The shoreline cuts near Texas City Dike and the surf just east of Galveston have seen flurries of red and trout action during incoming tide. Remember, live bait rules the day when the bite gets stubborn, but those using soft plastics with a twitch-pause pattern This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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  8. 11/06/2025

    Texas Coastal Fishing Report: Record Red Snapper, Flounder, Reds, and More

    Artificial Lure here with your November 6, 2025 Gulf of Mexico, Texas fishing report—your quick fix for what’s biting, where to cast, and how to rig up for best results. Sunrise hit at 6:42 AM, with sunset sliding in at 5:37 PM—plenty of daylight for wading, drifting, or chasing birds. Tides across the mid to upper coast are running softer today, with a low at 7:38 AM and a high swinging in about 4:24 PM around Corpus Christi, so time those moving water periods for peak bites. According to Tides4Fishing, we’re looking at a slack morning with a tidal coefficient around 36, rising moderate midday and ending near 50, meaning current’s a bit light but should pick up for the afternoon feed. Weatherwise, forecasters from the National Weather Service call for cooler, stable November temps—mid-60s at sunrise, stretching toward the mid-70s by late morning. Winds are gentle out of the north by northwest at 8–12 knots, giving you slicks in the bays and only a faint chop offshore. Water clarity is good, especially after the weak front slid in Monday, pushing bait shallow and setting up textbook fall conditions. If you’re itching for numbers, the 2025 red snapper run is breaking records—Texas Parks & Wildlife reports the longest federal season in history, still open ‘til November 21. Offshore, anglers continue to hammer big red snapper on deep structure, with a mess of mangrove snapper, king mackerel, and lingering mahi showing up east of Freeport and out near the Flower Gardens. For snapper, you can’t go wrong dropping down cut menhaden or squid on standard two-hook rigs, but the hottest bite is coming on glow soft plastics sweetened with a bit of bait—try a 6" chartreuse jig for extra action on the slow rise. Back inshore, the bays and marsh drains are loaded: fall flounder are staging along channel edges from Galveston down to Port Aransas—most keepers taken early with live finger mullet or white gulp mullet on 1/4 oz jigheads. Texas Parks & Wildlife and Lone Star Outdoor News are reporting big schools of slot redfish prowling grassy shorelines, especially in the Upper Laguna Madre, Bird Island flats, and the spoil islands near the JFK Causeway. Sight-casters are scoring with gold spoons and natural paddle tails in clearer water, or switching to bright chartreuse and pink when it’s churned up. At first light, toss a bone-colored topwater—think Spook Jr or SkitterWalk—for specks on the grassy potholes. Recent catches off the bulkheads and jetties include solid sheepshead and black drum, most falling for peeled shrimp on the bottom. Flounder action is best around outgoing tides at Packery Channel and Rollover Pass. If it’s bull reds you’re after, the surf along Bolivar Peninsula and the Port A jetties light up at dusk, especially on fresh cut mullet or crab. A couple of hot spots for you: - The East Flats of Galveston Bay are firing on moving tides for reds and trout—work the windward points or follow the birds diving on shrimp. - Corpus Christi’s This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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Discover the ultimate fishing adventure with the "Gulf of Mexico, Texas Fishing Report Today" podcast. Tune in daily for the latest updates on fishing conditions, expert tips, and local insights specific to the vibrant waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Texas coast. Stay informed on weather patterns, fish migrations, and tackle recommendations to enhance your fishing experience. Perfect for avid anglers and fishing enthusiasts looking to make the most of their time on the water. Join us for your essential guide to successful fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and Texas. For more info go to https://www.quietperiodplease.com/ Get all your gear befoe you leave the dock Also check out https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/time-in-city-news-info/id6692631879 and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/what-to-do-in-city-guides/id6615091666 This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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