Fishing Season: January 1 - December 31 (Prime: March 1 - November 30)

Gulf Coast - TX

Fishing Outlook & Conditions

Inshore Temp:

61

Offshore Temp:

75

Swan Point Landing's Tip of the Week

Ease and drift into calm quiet areas SLOWLY, don't push a wake and LOOK for hard targets Rub newly tied crab and seaducer patterns in grass / mud before feeding fish, take off any smell from sun block, head cement, etc...... concentrate as you walk and hunt for that one big fish, check tippet and make sure fly is tracking OK, know its sink rate and the depth of those deceptively deep sand corrugations on beach fronts drag behind you only the fly line that you can cast, to the longest targets. , minimize false casts near these traveling fish especially low sky light with L O N G shadows..... BREATHE and make the first shot on laid up, pothole fish COUNT!!

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Swan Point Landing Outfitters

5-Day Outlook as of 12/17/24

Mandatory "kill switch" must be ON operator's body when boat is moving faster than headway speeds HEY NEW TPW Trout regs are in effect since 9/1/ 2024 Now 3 trout per day, 15" to 20" with one allowed over 28" as of 9 1 2024 (usually all trout over 21" are females, please release this prime brood stock safely and quickly , with the best DNA! as trout populations recover and grow last jackfish sightings in POC, / Bird Island with tarpon jacks kings in passes, jetty moving south as FALL water cooling down NOTE: Proposal to permanently close Ayres, Carlos and Mesquite Bay reefs to oyster harvest, passed TPW unanimously 11/3/2022 Check CCA and FlatsWorthy for updates and plans to restore TX oysters, please JOIN!! SOUTH ZONE Texas Duck Nov. 2 to Dec. 1st Dec. 14th to Jan 26 2025 Be seen, consider binoculars to check out blinds and decoy spreads before advancing sunny Mild with SE winds before Wednesday PM N Wind to 20 clear and N winds with winds coming around to E by weekend sunny thru next week Tides normal to below normal with water falling out hard with last 2 weeks Northers and early week Full Moon as cooling water 65* slows wet wading ops reds eating early small dark crab and small brown shrimp /Roadkills. til mid day, and move a few inches for weighted flies try small tan, gray and black flies Fishing picking up with water dropping and cooling Bayoucus I., Grass I., and Whitaker's when sun gets up.. single.fish tailing and cooperating on tan or small white / tan flies early in day check for later day ICWW crawlers on the ditch edges on low barge traffic days early and late afternoon . Best bet for reds may be from wading, fish mid / late day, fish working on small shrimp and sheepshead minnows...consider Coast Guard flat , Decros shoreline and Green's Bayou shorelines, plus outside of Pringle to Lighthouse cove on SE winds . look at ICWW edges and Dewberry Is' shorelines on light W to NE winds Scattered larger reds on flats edges....please release all large trout ( typically all fish over 21" are female) as they got work to do, croaking trout are males and usually under 20"... please limit your fish kill as many annual kill tournaments move to CP&R or no-kill in 2024 and beyond ! Thank you CCA!! Front beach / Matagorda jetty over for tarpon, Jacks and Mackeral as each front pushes these hot weather fish south , Light West to NW to Northeast winds can knock surf down enough to look outside for XXL reds and slow sinking fly lines with dark flies PLEASE avoid running your boat on power up to these happy rolling tarpon Next year!, they are NOT Jackfish !!! drift in well ahead of them and fine tune your intercept with trolling motor, wind , tide, or push pole! NOTE: Aransas National Wildlife Refuge closed to ALL inland boat traffic and closes annually for Whooping Cranes, with their arrival in ANWR from October 15th to April 15th annually Please avoid kicking these birds up at all; while wading, running, or poling as the first of these first of these birds showed up in ANWR 3 weeks ago

Techniques & Tips as of 12/17/24

.Keep eyes out for big single trout on late PM sand near drop offs and potholes.. PLEASE release them!. On low wind conditions, proactively hit potholes from as far away as you can reach, with long leader (>10') to keep belly of line off the potholes.... Use white, ginger, tan , gray baitfish profile flies (-size 4-1/0) of various sink rates to probe potholes and drop offs. Go into sight-casting mode as sun gets up 9;00 to 3:00 and be ready to add 3' of extra fluoro 12# tippet and take some 3 to 4" grizzy seaducers ( a.k.a. Roadkills in #2 - 4) for picky fish, going with as long a leader as you can get away with on calm days, Get out of boat and walk on windy days with scudding clouds/ sun on lee shorelines...Small White shrimp flies, tan streamers, and small olive crab patterns matching what is hatching over last month...go to dark flies/ black/ olive purple / and all grizzly on picky fish

Current Conditions as of 12/17/24

Summer Sightcasting begins around 8 AM to cruising fish, or Blindcast 2-3 foot deep flats early with wtd. large streamers until sun gets up and floating grass becomes an issue, fish slow and erratic..... Scattered big fish showing on edge flats late with large flies and slow sinking lines. go to longer leaders (10' to 12') and fluoro tippets as needed Winter to early Spring is a good time to stick a large trout on island edges, lee shorelines and isolated sand flats

Local Species Available January 1 - December 31 (Prime: March 1 - November 30)

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    Redfish

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    sea trout large redfish

Swan Point Landing's Recommended Fly Patterns

"Must-have" fly fishing patterns in descending order of importance:

Name: Colors: Size(s):
Cowen's Baitfish Natural ginger 1 2 4
Tarpon Toad Black purple and whi 1/0
Clouser Minnow Olive and white, 2
Grand Slam Crab olive 2
seaducers ginger white 2 to 3/0
bead and lead eye seaducers white , tan , ginger 2- 2/0
Skipping Bug Popper copper silver 2/0 to 4/0
lead eye wool streamers gray/ wh 2/0
Larger hair or cork bodies for blindcasting shallo natural 2 to 2/0

Cowen's Baitfish

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Description: About Gulf Coast

Located 2 and 1/2 hours southwest of Houston, Tx. The fabled waters in this fishing town are known for a variety of fly fishing opportunities. The flats that surround POC (Port O'Connor) are known for Speckled Trout and Redfish on numerous grass flats and hard sand shorelines Deeper water in West Matagorda and Esprito Santos Bays hold seasonal Tarpon, Shark, Jack Crevalle, Spanish and King Mackerel from early April to late October...NOTE: Entire TEXAS COAST GRASS FLATS ARE NOW PROTECTED FROM PROPELLER DAMAGE, PLEASE DRIFT OR FLOAT IN AND DRIFT OR POLE OFF FLATS WITHOUT GRASS DAMAGE getting boat up on plane

Nearest Airport:

Houston Hobby, IAH, San antonio or BUSH IAH

Bait Recommendations:

. Go to small easier- to-see flies in 2-4 in white or chartruese until you get refusals then go to muted tan, olive, black and nat. grizzly for picky fish in bright sun. Try small hair bugs or smaller cork bodies for active fish with their backs out of the water later in day Consider larger bead headed flies to get over fish before wind driven boat spooks the fish, Blind casting with large white/ tan/gray sinking streamers early can be productive on flats near dropoffs, before floating grass comes up in the afternoon and late in the afternoon at warmest point of day