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Freeport Fishing Data

Free, sourced fishing data for Freeport and the Brazosport area — the numbers behind the site, not a weather app's guesses. Right now that means our five-year record of how often mornings were actually fishable; more datasets are on the way. See exactly how we grade a morning.

Fishable Mornings: The Conditions Archive

We have graded every morning and afternoon on this stretch of coast since June 2021, the same Good / Fair / Poor read the fishing report shows live. Here is what five years of that record says about when you can count on getting out. A morning counts as fishable when it graded Good or Fair, and only when conditions held for the whole window.

The Fishable Rate by Month

Freeport mornings, share that graded fishable (Good or Fair), averaged across 2021 through 2025.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% January: fishable 27% of mornings (good outright 11% %, across 124 graded mornings) 27% Jan February: fishable 42% of mornings (good outright 13% %, across 113 graded mornings) 42% Feb March: fishable 31% of mornings (good outright 20% %, across 113 graded mornings) 31% Mar April: fishable 27% of mornings (good outright 10% %, across 112 graded mornings) 27% Apr May: fishable 39% of mornings (good outright 14% %, across 124 graded mornings) 39% May June: fishable 51% of mornings (good outright 24% %, across 143 graded mornings) 51% Jun July: fishable 83% of mornings (good outright 37% %, across 155 graded mornings) 83% Jul August: fishable 83% of mornings (good outright 47% %, across 110 graded mornings) 83% Aug September: fishable 76% of mornings (good outright 49% %, across 141 graded mornings) 76% Sep October: fishable 51% of mornings (good outright 21% %, across 155 graded mornings) 51% Oct November: fishable 41% of mornings (good outright 15% %, across 150 graded mornings) 41% Nov December: fishable 40% of mornings (good outright 12% %, across 154 graded mornings) 40% Dec
Share of Freeport mornings that graded Good or Fair, by calendar month. Source: Brazosport Fishing Guide conditions archive.

What the Numbers Say

The pattern is the one every Brazosport angler already feels: summer mornings get out, winter mornings get blown out. From July through September, Freeport mornings were fishable at least 76% of the time, the most dependable stretch of the year.

July is the strongest month on record, with mornings fishable about 83% of the time. The slowest is April, down around 27%, when winter fronts stack up wind and seas and cancel more trips than they allow.

Spring (March through May) is the swing season: a calm window can be excellent, but a front can shut the pass for days, so the month-long average lands in the middle. That is why the planner leans on the specific window you pick, not the month as a whole.

Year by Year

Newest year first, Freeport with Galveston alongside it. The last column is coverage: how much of that year we have a graded record for. Read each port down its own years — the two are not a head-to-head (see the note below the table).

Annual fishable-morning rate and archive coverage by port. Runnable = Good or Fair; ideal = Good only.
Port Year Fishable Ideal Graded mornings Coverage
Freeport 2025 54% 22% 365 100%
Galveston 2025 soft coverage 54% 28% 259 71%
Freeport 2024 39% 19% 342 93%
Galveston 2024 soft coverage 48% 25% 234 64%
Freeport 2023 soft coverage 40% 20% 309 85%
Galveston 2023 soft coverage 47% 22% 212 58%
Freeport 2022 50% 23% 364 100%
Galveston 2022 50% 25% 364 100%
Freeport 2021 partial (Jun–Dec) 60% 29% 214 100%
Galveston 2021 partial (Jun–Dec) 23% 13% 52 24%

Reading the table: 2021 is a partial year — the archive starts in June, so do not compare it against a full year. Galveston rows (shaded) have thinner coverage in some years, flagged soft coverage, so read those annual figures as directional, not exact. A weaker Freeport year next to a stronger Galveston one is usually weather plus thin Galveston data, not one port out-fishing the other — so we do not publish a head-to-head Freeport-versus-Galveston number until the two cover matching periods.

Get the Data

The full month-by-month dataset — both ports, mornings and afternoons — is available on request. Working on a story, a study, or your own trip planning? Tell us how you will use it and we will send the breakdown.

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Brazosport Fishing Guide conditions archive va-1.0, 2021-06-01 to 2025-12-31 (2021 partial: June to December). Runnable = Good or Fair; ideal = Good only. Galveston coverage is thinner in some years.

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