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Rio Grande Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, and Cichlids Abound
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This is Artificial Lure with your Rio Grande, Texas fishing report for Friday, August 29, 2025. We’re off to a still and muggy start this morning along the lower Texas coast. Sun rose at 7:06 AM and you’ve got well over eleven hours of daylight—sunset at 7:54 PM gives you plenty of time to wet a line. Forecast from the National Weather Service out of Brownsville calls for mostly calm marine conditions, with seas running one to two feet and light variable winds—great for smaller boats and kayak anglers. We might see a shower roll through this afternoon, so keep an eye out for quickly building clouds, especially after lunch.
For those of you planning your bite, Solunar tables put today’s prime fishing windows around 1:13 PM to 3:13 PM, with a good minor bump this morning from 7:27 to 8:27. Fish are definitely active on the major and minor cycles, lining up just right with the dropping tides by late morning.
Let’s talk species—recent catches in and around the Rio Grande have been solid. Local guides report big numbers of speckled trout and redfish coming from both jetties and channel edges, with some slot-sized drum and the odd flounder thrown in as bycatch. Along the brackish stretches, folks are still getting into snook, especially in the early hours, and down near Brownsville, urban anglers are sight-casting to Rio Grande cichlids and the occasional gar. Just yesterday, Marcus Rodriguez with Laguna Rio Outdoors posted photos from a morning session—steady action on cichlids using small jigs and light line upriver from the city.
For those headed out, here’s your bait box: live shrimp is the staple for drum, trout, and flounder—freelined or under a popping cork, it’s hard to beat. Cut mullet’s getting good attention from reds along the edges, and fresh dead menhaden is putting the big cats on the chew up near Falcon Reservoir. If you’re throwing artificials, darker paddle-tail swimbaits are killing it when worked along grassy points, with Gulp! shrimp and small gold spoons also producing. Early topwater action is solid—Super Spooks and She Dogs in bone or chrome have been getting exploded by trout and even a few sneaky snook. Soft plastics in natural shades are taking the most bites for cichlids, especially around shallow snags and current seams.
Hot spots this week? Two spots worth trying: First, the Southmost Channel access, especially at sunrise for mixed bags of drum, reds, and cats—easy shore access and fish moving in tight to structure. Second, the mouth of Resaca de la Palma for fly and light-tackle cichlid fishing—perfect for anglers looking to sight-fish in clear, shallow water where action’s been nonstop all week.
A quick plug: September’s right around the bend, and that means tournament time with the annual Rio Grande Rumble—details up now from Catch Cormier, so pre-fish those cichlid holes if you’re feeling competitive.
That wraps it for today’s Rio Grande report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for more tales and tips from the water. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.
For those of you planning your bite, Solunar tables put today’s prime fishing windows around 1:13 PM to 3:13 PM, with a good minor bump this morning from 7:27 to 8:27. Fish are definitely active on the major and minor cycles, lining up just right with the dropping tides by late morning.
Let’s talk species—recent catches in and around the Rio Grande have been solid. Local guides report big numbers of speckled trout and redfish coming from both jetties and channel edges, with some slot-sized drum and the odd flounder thrown in as bycatch. Along the brackish stretches, folks are still getting into snook, especially in the early hours, and down near Brownsville, urban anglers are sight-casting to Rio Grande cichlids and the occasional gar. Just yesterday, Marcus Rodriguez with Laguna Rio Outdoors posted photos from a morning session—steady action on cichlids using small jigs and light line upriver from the city.
For those headed out, here’s your bait box: live shrimp is the staple for drum, trout, and flounder—freelined or under a popping cork, it’s hard to beat. Cut mullet’s getting good attention from reds along the edges, and fresh dead menhaden is putting the big cats on the chew up near Falcon Reservoir. If you’re throwing artificials, darker paddle-tail swimbaits are killing it when worked along grassy points, with Gulp! shrimp and small gold spoons also producing. Early topwater action is solid—Super Spooks and She Dogs in bone or chrome have been getting exploded by trout and even a few sneaky snook. Soft plastics in natural shades are taking the most bites for cichlids, especially around shallow snags and current seams.
Hot spots this week? Two spots worth trying: First, the Southmost Channel access, especially at sunrise for mixed bags of drum, reds, and cats—easy shore access and fish moving in tight to structure. Second, the mouth of Resaca de la Palma for fly and light-tackle cichlid fishing—perfect for anglers looking to sight-fish in clear, shallow water where action’s been nonstop all week.
A quick plug: September’s right around the bend, and that means tournament time with the annual Rio Grande Rumble—details up now from Catch Cormier, so pre-fish those cichlid holes if you’re feeling competitive.
That wraps it for today’s Rio Grande report. Thanks for tuning in—don’t forget to subscribe for more tales and tips from the water. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.