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  • Crisp January Fishing on the Texas Gulf Coast with Artificial Lure

    Crisp January Fishing on the Texas Gulf Coast with Artificial Lure
    Jan 12 2026
    Howdy, y'all, this is Artificial Lure, your salty Gulf Coast Texas fishing guru, comin' atcha live on this crisp January 12th mornin'. Skies are partly cloudy with temps hoverin' in the low 50s risin' to mid-60s by afternoon—perfect for bundle-up fishin', no major wind to fuss with. Sunrise hit at 7:14 AM, sunset 'round 5:40 PM, givin' ya a solid 10-hour window.

    Tides at Galveston Bay Entrance South Jetty today show low at 5:01 AM (-0.6 ft) risin' to high at 2:49 PM (1.4 ft)—that outgoing early mornin' and flood tide later is prime for draggin' structure. Solunar activity's low coefficient 37, but fish don't always read the charts.

    Action's hot on reds, speckled trout, and black drum, per the latest Galveston Bay reports from TPWD updated January 11th. Anglers been pullin' limits of 20-30" reds and slot trout on the flats, with black drum up to 40"+ crashin' pots. Recent catches include a 43.5" red drum catch-and-release on mullet rigs, and gafftopsail cats hittin' cut bait hard.

    Best lures? Strike King's Spot Tail Special 1/4oz is killin' reds in shallow grass—twitch it slow. Rapala Original Floater or Zoom Trick Worm for trout in channels. Live shrimp or mullet tops baits; rig 'em Carolina-style under a poppin' cork. Mullet imitations like soft plastics on jigheads seal the deal.

    Hit these hot spots: Galveston Pleasure Pier for pier rats targetin' trout on shrimp, or the South Jetty rocks for reds tailin' in the wash—park early, beat the crowd.

    Y'all stay safe, check regs, and tight lines!

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    2 min
  • Gulf Coast Texas Fishing Report: Cool Mornings, Warming Afternoons Yield Trout, Reds, and Drum

    Gulf Coast Texas Fishing Report: Cool Mornings, Warming Afternoons Yield Trout, Reds, and Drum
    Jan 11 2026
    Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Gulf Coast Texas fishing report.

    Along the upper coast from Galveston down to Freeport, we’re riding a classic winter pattern: cool mornings, light north to northeast breeze early, swinging southeast as the sun gets up, with highs pushing into the low 60s. Tides4Fishing’s Galveston South Jetty table shows a low tide just after sunrise today, around 4:30 a.m. with negative water, then a solid incoming pushing to a 1.2‑foot high mid‑afternoon. Sunrise is right about 7:14 a.m., sunset around 5:39 p.m. That building afternoon water is your window.

    Water is cold but clearing on protected shorelines and over deeper shell. Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine’s January columns note steady trout and redfish action working mud and shell in 3–6 feet, especially on those warming afternoon tides. Recent charter reports out of Galveston and Matagorda have been posting mixed boxes of 16–22 inch speckled trout, solid slot reds, and a few keeper black drum and sheepshead off the jetties and deep reefs.

    Fish activity has been slow at daybreak, then picking up late morning as the sun warms that darker bottom. Think lazy winter fish: they’re eating, but you’ve got to crawl it. Trout are staging along drop‑offs and guts; reds are roaming drains and shorelines when the water creeps back up. Black drum have been thick on shell and around channel edges, especially with that incoming tide.

    Best lures right now:
    - Soft plastics on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads in natural or dark winter colors – Down South, Bass Assassin, and MirrOlure‑style twitch baits are all putting trout in the net, just like the local guides keep preaching in Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine.
    - Corky‑style suspending baits and MirrOdines fished painfully slow over mud and shell for bigger trout.
    - For reds, a 3–4 inch paddle tail in red/white, chicken‑on‑a‑chain, or motor oil, slow‑rolled along the bottom.
    - At the jetties, a simple ¼–½ oz jig with shrimp‑ or crab‑scented soft plastic is money on drum, sheepshead, and slot reds.

    Best bait:
    - Live or dead shrimp under a popping cork over shell or along channel edges.
    - Cracked blue crab for oversized black drum on the jetties and passes.
    - Finger mullet or mud minnows on the bottom near drains for reds and the occasional flounder.

    Couple of hot spots to hit:
    - Galveston South Jetty and the nearby ship channel edges: incoming tide this afternoon should push bait and drum, reds, and some trout right up the rocks.
    - West Matagorda Bay mud and shell around Oyster Lake and the guts leading into the back lakes: afternoon wades with soft plastics and Corkys are producing quality trout and scattered reds.

    If you can only fish one window, slide out late morning, fish through that building afternoon high, and work slow. Think “winter creep,” not “summer burn.”

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    3 min
  • Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Winter Patterns, Tides, and Lure Recommendations

    Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Winter Patterns, Tides, and Lure Recommendations
    Jan 10 2026
    Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Texas Gulf fishing report.

    We’re in a classic winter pattern along the Gulf, with cool mornings, light to moderate north–northeast breeze, and highs working up into the 60s along the upper and mid coast. According to the National Weather Service marine outlook, seas are running 2–4 feet nearshore, so the bays and beachfront are plenty fishable if you pick your windows.

    Tides are on the weaker side but still useful. NOAA’s Galveston Pleasure Pier predictions show a predawn low followed by a mid‑morning rise and an evening high, so that mid‑morning push and last couple hours of daylight around sunset are your money tides. Tide-Forecast and Tides4Fishing list sunrise right around 7:10 a.m. and sunset near 5:30 p.m. up and down the upper Texas coast, giving you a tight low‑light window when the bite is best.

    Fish activity is classic January: slower overall, but quality fish for folks willing to grind. The latest statewide Texas fishing report from the Midland Reporter‑Telegram notes steady catches of **redfish, speckled trout, and black drum** on the coast, with winter patterns setting up in deeper guts and channel edges. Inshore YouTube reports out of the Chocolate Bay and upper coast area show kayak anglers still picking off speckled trout and redfish, but working hard for bites and leaning on live bait to seal the deal.

    Catch-wise this past week, guides and locals from Galveston down through Freeport and Matagorda are reporting:
    - Solid **slot reds** on shell and mud in 2–4 feet, especially on moving water.
    - **Speckled trout** holding deeper, 5–8 feet over mud and shell, and on drop‑offs near drains.
    - Scattered **black drum and sheepshead** on channel edges and around structure on shrimp and crab.

    Best artificial lures right now:
    - **Soft plastics** on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads in natural or dark winter colors: plum, opening night, chicken‑on‑a‑chain, and new penny. Sea Fishing Lures guides and other saltwater lure resources emphasize soft plastic jerkbaits and paddletails for inshore reds and trout.
    - **Slow‑sinking twitchbaits** in chrome or bone for trout over shell.
    - **Gulp! shrimp** on light jigheads worked painfully slow along the bottom in deeper guts.
    - On calmer afternoons, a **topwater** can still draw a big red or trout over shallow mud warming in the sun.

    Best bait:
    - **Live shrimp** under a popping cork for trout, reds, drum, and sheepshead.
    - **Live finger mullet or mud minnows** freelined or on a Carolina rig along drains and bayous.
    - For drum and sheepshead, **dead shrimp or cracked crab** on the bottom around structure.

    Couple of hot spots to circle:
    - **West Bay / San Luis Pass side (Galveston–Freeport)**: Work the protected shorelines and mid‑bay reefs on the warming afternoon tide. Look for slicks and scattered mullet; ease through quietly and fan‑cast soft plastics.
    - **Texas City Dike & Galveston Channel**: Deeper winter water, great for trout, reds, and drum on live shrimp and soft plastics bounced along the drop‑off. Fish the edges of the rocks and ship channel when that tide starts moving.

    Down the coast, **East Matagorda Bay** is also a solid bet: drift soft plastics across mid‑bay shell on the incoming, then slide into drains as water falls.

    Keep your retrieve slow, focus on that mid‑morning tide swing and the last light of the day, and you’ll put fish in the box.

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    4 min
  • Saltwater Fishing Forecast: Solid Trout, Reds, and Flounder Bites Along Texas Gulf Coast

    Saltwater Fishing Forecast: Solid Trout, Reds, and Flounder Bites Along Texas Gulf Coast
    Jan 9 2026
    Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Texas Gulf report.

    We’re sliding into a classic winter pattern along the Middle and Upper Coast. Texas Parks and Wildlife’s latest saltwater report says water temps are mid‑60s, with fishing **good overall** if you key on deep structure and bait concentrations. Redfish Bay, San Antonio Bay, Port Aransas and Baffin are all holding fish.

    Along the **Galveston / Freeport** stretch, tides4fishing and NOAA show a softer tide cycle today, with modest highs and lows and “average” solunar activity. That usually means you want to fish the **moving water windows** hard: early morning drop and the mid‑afternoon push. Sunrise on this part of the coast is right around 7:15 a.m., sunset about 5:35–5:40 p.m., so your best feeding flurries should bracket those times.

    Weather‑wise, winter gulf pattern: cool mornings, milder afternoons, light to moderate south‑southeast breeze. That wind stacks bait on windward shorelines and pushes water and life up against shell and grass. Cloud cover just makes it better for trout.

    Reports from TPWD’s saltwater roundup have it like this:
    - **Trout & reds**: San Antonio Bay and Galveston complex are giving up solid specks and reds on **live shrimp** over the flats and along channel edges, plus over shell in 3–6 feet. Trout are coming deeper off rock edges and dropoffs in ship channels.
    - **Redfish**: Redfish Bay and Port Aransas are seeing strong shallow redfish bites on **cut mullet, shrimp, and silver spoons**, with oversize reds on cut crab and mullet off the jetties.
    - **Flounder**: Creeks and drains on an **outgoing tide**, picking off bait flushed from the marsh, on mud minnows and soft plastics.
    - **Surf mix**: Corpus and open Gulf beaches are giving up pompano, whiting, trout, drum and reds in the first and second gut on shrimp, Fishbites and live mullet when the water’s clean.

    Artificial selection is very much a winter game now. Guides out of Baffin are leaning on:
    - **Soft plastics** with rattles or “corky‑style” suspending baits in darker colors like **Dark Vader**, watermelon red, or golden bream.
    - **Paddle‑tail plastics** on light jigheads, slow‑rolled near bottom.
    - **Imitation shrimp** or Gulp! shrimp under a popping cork in 2–4 feet.
    Work ’em slow, almost painfully so; most bites are low in the water column.

    Live and dead bait still rule numbers:
    - **Best bait right now**: live shrimp, finger mullet, mud minnows, and cut mullet. Dead shrimp for drum and sheepshead around rocks and pilings.
    - In the surf, shrimp or Fishbites tipped with a small piece of cut bait in the first gut is putting pompano, whiting, and slot reds on the sand.

    A couple of **hot spots** to circle:
    - **Galveston South Jetty / Ship Channel rocks**: Trout, reds, drum and sheepshead on live shrimp and soft plastics bounced down the rocks. On calm days, oversize reds on cut crab on the Gulf side.
    - **San Luis Pass and adjacent bay reefs**: Work the tide swings with plastics and shrimp under corks on the bay side, and cut mullet or live shrimp in the guts on the Gulf side. Moving water is key here—do not linger through slack.

    If you’re farther south:
    - **East Flats / Lighthouse Lakes near Port Aransas**: Reds cruising shallow grass at mid‑day on spoons and paddle tails.
    - **Baffin Bay rocks**: Big trout potential on slow‑swept plastics and Corkys along the deep rock piles.

    Fish slow, watch the birds and bait, and don’t be afraid to move until you stick a couple—then fan that area thoroughly.

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    4 min
  • Crisp January Gulf Action: Bull Reds, Specks, and Flounder Abound Along the Texas Coast

    Crisp January Gulf Action: Bull Reds, Specks, and Flounder Abound Along the Texas Coast
    Jan 7 2026
    Hey y'all, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to Gulf Coast fishing guide, comin' atcha from the Texas salty side on this crisp January 7th mornin'. Water's coolin' off, but the bite's holdin' steady if you time it right.

    Tides today 'round Corpus Christi and Galveston show low at 11:44 AM around -0.22 ft, high at 7:18 PM hittin' 1.03 ft, per Tide-Forecast.com. Sunrise kicked off at 7:20 AM, sunset 'round 5:50 PM—perfect for that dawn and dusk action. Solunar charts from FishingReminder point to major bites 4:59-6:59 AM and 5:27-7:27 PM near Galveston, with waxin' gibbous moon keepin' fish revved.

    Recent reports got bull reds tearin' up the beachfront and jetties on fresh mullet or cut bait, speckled trout hittin' shell and drains at first light on north winds, and flounder giggin' marsh drains on the fallin' tide. Surf's poppin' with Spanish mackerel and slot reds when water's green to the beach—black drum deeper on shrimp. Limits are tight, so watch those regs after that Neches River bust with overbag crappie.

    Best lures? Glow or chartreuse soft plastics slow-rolled, silver spoons for macks, topwaters at dawn. Live shrimp under poppin' corks for mixed bags, mud minnows for flounder. Mullet or crabs bottom-bouncin' for drums and reds.

    Hit these hot spots: Galveston jetties for reds and trout, or Port Bolivar beaches for surf action—look for birds and slicks.

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    2 min
  • January Gulf Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, Drum Biting in Galveston Bay

    January Gulf Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, Drum Biting in Galveston Bay
    Jan 5 2026
    Howdy, folks, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to Gulf of Mexico Texas fishing guru, comin' at ya live from the salty shores on this crisp January 5th mornin'. Sun's up at 7:13 AM and sets at 5:34 PM here 'round Galveston Bay Entrance South Jetty, givin' us a solid 10 hours of daylight to chase 'em.

    Tides today are fishin' friendly with a high solunar rating of 89—pretty high activity. We're lookin' at 2:10 AM high at 1.6 ft, low at 10:18 AM hittin' -1.2 ft, evenin' high 7:05 PM at 1.5 ft, and a minor 10:46 PM at 1.2 ft. That outgoing tide mid-mornin' to afternoon's prime for reds and trout rootin' in the shallows.

    Weather's cool and calm, typical winter Gulf—bundle up, winds light outta the north, water temps hoverin' low 50s, perfect for cold-water holdouts. Recent reports from Texas Parks and Wildlife show black drum pushin' 42.5 inches catch-and-release just last January, reds at 43.5 inches in November, and spotted seatrout active. Locals are pullin' reds, black drum, flounder, sheepshead, and gafftopsail cats steady—plenty of slot reds and keeper trout in the mix, with some big bull reds tailin' flats.

    Fish are bitin' best on the move: live shrimp or mullet tops for bait, free-lined or under a poppin' cork. Artificials? Berkley Gulp shrimp or swimmin' mullet imitators on a 1/4-ounce jighead for trout and reds—work 'em slow on the falling tide. Piggy perch or croaker for bigger specks.

    Hit these hot spots: Galveston Bay Entrance South Jetty for jetty trout and reds on the rocks, or Port Aransas jetties where outgoing currents stack drum and sheepshead. Wade shallow or drift the cuts—easy limits await.

    Y'all stay safe out there, measure 'em twice, and release the big breeders.

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  • Galveston Glow: Winter Slam, Trout and Reds in Texas Gulf

    Galveston Glow: Winter Slam, Trout and Reds in Texas Gulf
    Jan 4 2026
    Howdy, y'all, this is Artificial Lure comin' at ya from the salty shores of the Gulf of Mexico, right here in Texas on this crisp Sunday mornin', January 4th. Winter's got her grip, but the fishin' is heatin' up if you know where to cast.

    Tides4Fishing charts show Galveston Bay Entrance hittin' a low at 9:28 AM around -1.5 feet, then risin' to high at 6:27 PM at 1.6 feet—perfect for workin' the outgoing with solunar peaks very high at 92, meanin' major bites 'round 1:06 AM and 9:47 PM. Sunrise at 7:13 AM, sunset 5:33 PM, givin' ya about 10 hours of light. Weather's cool and clear, highs in the low 60s, light north breeze—prime after a front for trout and reds stackin' bait.

    Fish activity's solid: FishingBooker reports a winter slam out of Port Aransas with limits of big redfish, plus flounder gigs and bonus tarpon. Captain Experiences notes slot reds and sheepshead active in Aransas Pass and Gulf Shores stretches. Recent catches include bull reds on cut mullet, speckled trout at first light on shell, black drum in channels, and Spanish mackerel in the surf when it's green.

    Best lures? Topwaters like walking frogs or popping frogs for shallow spawners—Bradley Roy swears by 'em on thick cover with 50-pound braid. Glow/chartreuse soft plastics slow-rolled on falling tides, silver spoons for macks, crankbaits and jigs in stained water. Live shrimp under poppin' corks or mud minnows for mixed bags. Dirty water combos like Midnight Mullet shine here.

    Hit these hot spots: Galveston South Jetty for reds and trout on the rip, or Port Aransas jetties and ship channel edges for drum and sheepshead. Wade windward shores early, follow birds.

    Y'all stay safe out there, measure 'em twice, release the big breeders.

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    2 min
  • Crisp January Fishing on the Texas Gulf: Reds, Trout, and Drum Abound - Artificial Lure's Latest Fishing Report

    Crisp January Fishing on the Texas Gulf: Reds, Trout, and Drum Abound - Artificial Lure's Latest Fishing Report
    Jan 3 2026
    Howdy, y'all, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to Gulf of Mexico Texas fishing expert, comin' at ya live from the salty bays on this crisp January 3rd mornin'. Sun's risin' at 7:19 AM CST here 'round Port Aransas, settin' at 5:45 PM—plenty of daylight to chase 'em. Tides are lookin' prime per Tide-Forecast.com: low at 8:31 AM droppin' to -0.93 ft, then high at 8:47 PM climbin' to 0.84 ft. Fish'll stack up on the incoming flood, so time your runs right.

    Weather's a bit breezy out Galveston way, pushin' 24 mph winds with sunny skies and temps hoverin' mid-60s to low 70s, Galveston Fishing Pier reports. Galveston Fishing Update from Spreaker says yesterday's windy action fired up reds and trout—folks slayed slot reds to 28 inches and keeper trout on flats. Your Best Damn Surf Fishing Report on YouTube notes solid surf bites too, with drum and whoppin' reds pushin' shorelines. Amounts? Limits comin' easy if ya hit the right spots; trout schools thick, reds aggressive despite the chill.

    Fish activity's pickin' up in this winter pattern—cold fronts got 'em schooled near oyster beds and grass edges. Target reds, specks, black drum; offshore rigs holdin' snapper if ya brave the chop, per Reel Deal Sportfishing's Jan 2 vid.

    Best lures? Go slow-fallin' for lethargic fish: Z-Man Redfish Eye Jigheads packed with 4-5 inch paddletails or jerk shads in natural shrimp colors. Strike King Rage DB Craw Texas-rigged on 3/8-oz tungsten for bottom draggin'. Winter inshore tips from YouTube swear by bottom-oriented vibes like these 'round oysters. Live bait kings: fresh shrimp under a popping cork, or finger mullet free-lined for reds. Shiners if ya guidin' bass up bays, Lake Sam Rayburn report style.

    Hot spots today: Galveston flats for wind-blown reds/trout—hit the incoming tide edges. Port Aransas jetties for drum and specks stackin' low tide rocks. Rig up and go!

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    2 min
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