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Fishing the Gulf Coast Winter Trout Bite: Soft Plastics, Live Bait, and Solunar Timing for Speckled Trout and Redfish

Fishing the Gulf Coast Winter Trout Bite: Soft Plastics, Live Bait, and Solunar Timing for Speckled Trout and Redfish

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 Name’s Artificial Lure checking in from down here around New Orleans and the east side of the Gulf.

We’re locked into that classic January pattern: cool mornings in the low 50s, warming into the 60s this afternoon, light north to northeast breeze and pretty forgiving seas along the inside coast. The National Weather Service marine forecast out of New Orleans has the nearshore stuff under 2 feet, so it’s a good day for small boats to creep the marsh and inside bays.

According to the NOAA tide station at New Canal, the high water slid through around first light with another high showing just after daybreak and a low mid‑afternoon, only about a foot of total movement. That’s not ripping current, but it gives you a sweet spot on the last of the rise and the first of the fall. Tides4Fishing’s Shell Beach solunar chart shows sunrise right around 6:45–6:50 and sunset right at 5:00, with better activity late morning into early afternoon.

Inshore action’s been steady if you fish winter‑slow. Local captains out of Shell Beach, Hopedale, and Delacroix are still boxing **15–30 keeper speckled trout** on decent trips, plus a handful of slot reds and some bonus sheepshead and black drum off the deeper points and bridge pilings. Louisiana Sportsman has been talking up winter trout stacked in dead‑end canals like Myrtle Grove, and the same pattern’s holding all around Barataria and the Biloxi Marsh: deep bends, shell bottom, clean moving water.

Best producers right now are **3"–4" soft plastics on light jigheads** and **live shrimp or minnows**. Think opening night, avocado, or anything with a chartreuse tail on 1/8 to 1/4 ounce heads, dragged slow and low like you’re snag‑shy. Let it hit bottom, tiny hops, long pauses. Under birds or when the tide’s pushing harder at the mouths, a popping cork with live shrimp is still money for school trout.

For reds, work shallow to the grass and broken shell with **gold spoons**, small spinnerbaits, or Gulp shrimp on a jig. If you’re more of a soaker, fresh cut mullet or shrimp on a Carolina rig will handle reds, drum, and sheepshead around current breaks and pilings.

Couple hot spots for you:

- Shell Beach and the Biloxi Marsh edge: hit the bayou mouths feeding Bay Eloi and the MRGO rocks. Set up where you’ve got 6–10 feet, some shell, and bait flicking. That late‑morning fall should line those trout up on the drop.

- Myrtle Grove and Barataria dead‑end canals: idle until you mark 8–12 feet with bait, then fan‑cast plastics or slowly drag a jig through the middle. That’s been producing mixed bags of trout with some nice reds sliding through.

Work slow, watch that minor late‑day push near sunset, and you ought to go home with some filets.

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