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Sabine Pass Fishing Report

Updated Fri, Oct 23, 2026 from live gauge and weather data

The border pass where Texas and Louisiana trade water: jetties, ship channel and marsh drains funneling everything between Sabine Lake and the Gulf.

3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
Low 9:33 PM
Air / High
82 / 82 F
Wind
SSE 6 mph

Sources: NOAA tides 8770570, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.

Satellite view
Friday
23
October 2026

Today's Fishing Report

Generated this morning from live readings: gauge, weather model, sun and moon. A fresh report is published here every morning.

3/5Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Sabine Pass offers the kind of conditions this water was made for. Today brings clear skies, wind SSE around 6 mph, steady pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 82. Tides: high 3:29 AM and 3:44 PM, low 9:30 AM and 9:33 PM: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 78 F for the season (estimated). With the waxing gibbous, the solunar majors run 9:53 AM-11:53 AM and 10:19 PM-12:19 AM: the windows to build the day around.

The plan, species by species

Redfish (red drum)Excellent

Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled troutExcellent

Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

Tomorrow: Similar at 79 F. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.Next report: Sat, Oct 24, 6:30 AMHow this report is made β†’

Before you go

Texas requires a fishing licence from age 17, from $30.00 for residents, and salt water needs its own licence here. What a Texas licence costs and where to buy it β†’

Chasing redfish (red drum) here? Check the size and bag limits with TPWD before you keep anything. The season dates for Texas, read off the agency, are on the Texas seasons page.

Water and weather

Live readings.

Tides

NOAA station 8770570 (Sabine Pass). Fish the moving water either side of each change.

Fri
HIGH3:29 AM1.8 ft
LOW9:30 AM1.0 ft
HIGH3:44 PM1.8 ft
LOW9:33 PM1.1 ft
Sat
HIGH3:35 AM1.8 ft
LOW9:59 AM0.7 ft
HIGH4:45 PM2.0 ft
LOW10:22 PM1.3 ft

Right now

Latest readings

Air temp82 F
High / Low82 / 58 F
WindSSE 6-6 mph
Pressure1018.3 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset07:22 / 18:36
MoonWaxing Gibbous, 91%
Water temp (seasonal)~78 F est.

Bite planner

Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today. Tap a bar to see why.

5 AM8 AM11 AM2 PM5 PM8 PMsunrisesunsetPRIMEPRIME

Which day to fish Sabine Pass this week

The best day on Sabine Pass this week looks like Monday Oct 26, at 5 out of 5, against 3 today.

Best day this week: Monday, Oct 26 β€” excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.

Today, Oct 23 β€” Fair

A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Solunar majors
9:53 AM-11:53 AM and 10:19 PM-12:19 AM
Minor period
4:14 AM-5:14 AM
Sun
07:22 to 18:36
Moon
Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit
Sky and wind
Partly cloudy, 7 mph
Rain chance
0%

Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out: how the score is built.

Species guide

The species that matter on Sabine Pass: seasons, structure and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.

Redfish (red drum) illustration

Redfish (red drum)

Best: late-summer and fall bull run; inshore all year

Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), called redfish across the South, is a bronze inshore drum with a black spot near the tail, fished on grass flats, oyster bars, marsh creeks and beaches from the Chesapeake around Florida to Texas. Spring and early summer put redfish on grass flats, shorelines and oyster bars; on the Gulf, fish below spawning age stay inside the bays (TPWD). Sight-cast to tailing and cruising fish or drift live shrimp under a popping cork.

Speckled trout illustration

Speckled trout

Shallow bays spring and summer; deeper water in winter

Speckled trout is the anglers' name for the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), a spotted member of the drum family that lives in shallow bays and estuaries from the Chesapeake to Texas. Spring brings seatrout back over shallow seagrass, and the spawning season (April to September in Louisiana and South Carolina) keeps them feeding. Popping corks with live shrimp, free-shrimping on the drift and casting to working birds are the main tools.

When to come: the Sabine Pass calendar

Activity by species and month, and how the water warms through the year. Tap any cell.

Species activity by month

1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted.

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Redfish (red drum)
Speckled trout
SlowPeak

Water temperature through the year

Typical surface temperature for this water type; today is around 78 F (estimated, not a reading).

5060708090JanMarMayJulSepNovOct, ~78 F now

Angler reports

Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. The water log below tracks each day automatically.

No angler reports yet this weekBe the first: your report helps every angler who checks Sabine Pass today, and we feature the best catch of the week.

Water log, last days

Auto-logged from live data
Thu, Oct 22

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 82 F, wind to 8 mph.

Wed, Oct 21

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 80 F, wind to 9 mph.

Tue, Oct 20

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Redfish (red drum) led the card at excellent. High of 80 F, wind to 10 mph.

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Before you go

License

Texas requires a valid fishing license for adults. Buy online from the state agency; one-day options exist for visitors.

Regulations

Texas OR Louisiana license depending on which side you fish: the line runs mid-channel. Flounder November rules differ by state: check both TPWD and LDWF.

Access

Sabine Pass jetty boat ramps, Walter Umphrey State Park pier, Keith Lake kayak launches.

About this water

Deepwater pass between Sabine Lake and the Gulf, Jefferson County, TX / Cameron Parish, LA.

Fishing Sabine Pass: the full guide

The funnel

Sabine Pass is a textbook funnel fishery: all of Sabine Lake's bait and predators pass through one channel to the Gulf. The jetties extend miles seaward, the ship channel runs deep against them, and every tide change repositions the food chain. Trout, reds, flounder, sharks, and the odd tarpon in late summer: whatever swims the northwestern Gulf transits here.

Jetty rhythms

The Texas-side jetty fishes from boat or rock: trout on soft plastics along the wash, slot reds tight to the granite, bull reds and jack crevalle off the end in fall. Louisiana's side (license matters: know which state's water you float) often holds cleaner water on west winds. The channel's 40-ft drops hold winter trout when fronts push them deep.

Marsh math

Behind the pass, the Sabine marsh drains load with redfish on falling tides: Keith Lake and the cuts north of the pass are kayak country, with reds tailing in inches of water on calm mornings. October's flounder run through the pass is the region's calendar event: gigging lights at night, jig-and-gulp drifts by day.

Reading the border water

Sabine runs fresher than most Texas bays (two rivers feed it), so salinity lines move with rainfall: after floods, fish stack near the pass where salt holds. The Causeway reefs and the Pleasure Island riprap give wade-free structure options when the Gulf blows unfishable.

Common questions

Texas or Louisiana license at Sabine Pass?

The boundary runs down the channel: fish the Texas side with TX, the Louisiana side with LA. Many regulars carry both: the fish do not respect the line.

When is the flounder run at Sabine?

October into November as fish funnel from the marsh to the Gulf: the pass concentrates them like a tollbooth. Check current November closure/limit rules before keeping fish.

Is fishing good at Sabine Pass right now?

Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.

Nearby waters

Sabine Lake11 miCalcasieu Lake35 miNeches River45 miGalveston63 miTexas City Dike66 miLake Houston78 mi

Where this page's numbers come from

Tide predictions
NOAA CO-OPS 8770570 β€” Sabine Pass
Harmonic predictions, datum MLLW, local time. 12 high and low events returned for today and the next two days. A prediction, not a measured water level: wind and surge move the real thing.
Weather and pressure
Open-Meteo forecast model
Queried at 29.7280, -93.8700 in this water's own timezone. A model, not an observation.
Moon and solunar windows
Calculated on this site
Astronomical calculation from these coordinates and the date, not a third-party feed. How much weight it deserves.
The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
How this page was made. The daily report is computed by our scoring engine from live readings; nobody types it. The written guide was drafted with AI assistance. Unlike our newer pages, it does not yet list the official pages its facts were checked against: that audit is under way, and anything it cannot verify will be taken out. Pablo Ruiz Quintero sets every guideline, the data-verification system and the minimum standards a page must meet to be published, reviews page structure and approves what goes live; the responsibility is his, and the AI carries out the work. We work this way because it is how one person can keep every page current with named sources. Errors are published in the verification log; the full policy is in the editorial policy.

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