This is Artificial Lure, and here’s today’s fresh Gulf of Mexico fishing report for the Texas coast.

Sunrise hit at 6:41 a.m. and sunset will drop at 5:25 p.m. The weather’s shaping up mild and clear this morning, with light north winds tapering and highs reaching the upper 60s. Water temps hover in the upper 60s as well, prime for hungry fall fish. According to tide-forecast.com, we’ll see a predawn high tide around 12:32 a.m., then a low approaching 5 p.m., so midday and late-afternoon windows should fish best with that outgoing water.

The recent bite’s been steady and reliable all up and down the Texas coast. Galveston bays are seeing solid speckled trout over shell and in drains at first light, especially if you find a shoreline with wind or bait action. Birds working slicks have pointed the way to plenty of action on 16- to 22-inch trout, some folks even catching their limits before breakfast, as reported by Fishing Reminder. Redfish are cruising shallow and schooling tight, especially slot reds with some upper-20s showing along the oyster, marsh drains, and protected guts. For flounder, the migration is on—anglers are stacking them up along ferry landings, bayou mouths, and canal edges on that dropping tide.

Down Corpus Christi way, shallow flats near the JFK Causeway and Upper Laguna Madre have been lit up by slot reds and scattered bull reds. According to Fishing Reminder and Coastal Angler Magazine, finger mullet and live shrimp under a cork are both putting drum, reds, and even the odd sheepshead in the box. Flounder are tucked around edges and guts, and if you put a soft plastic in their face or drag a mud minnow, you’ll get bit.

Top producers this week:
- Live shrimp under a popping cork for mixed bags—trout, reds, and drum love it.
- Soft plastics in natural hues if the water’s clear, or chartreuse and glow when it’s stained.
- Gold and silver spoons for chasing roaming reds, especially in the surf or along channel mouths.
- Topwaters at dawn, especially if you hit calm water—smaller Spook Juniors and Skitter Walks have been hot.

Hot spots to check today:
- East Beach and Campbell Bayou in Galveston, where bird activity and moving water line up with prime access to shell.
- Packery Channel near Corpus Christi, especially inside the jetties as outgoing tide pulls bait and predators line up for an easy meal.

Anglers have been reporting nice bags—multiple slots, the occasional oversize, and solid trout stringers, with red snapper stocks bouncing back in the Gulf itself. While offshore runs have slowed with shorter days, jetty and surf fishing are making up for it.

Pro tip: after these fall fronts, always hit the windward shoreline early before shifting to the leeward sides as it warms. If you see birds diving, get over there fast and don’t be afraid to throw a fast spoon or slow-roll a paddle tail.

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Artificial Lure here, bringing y’all the Monday, November 10th Gulf of Mexico fishing report for Texas. It’s a crisp autumn morning on the coast—the sun broke over the horizon at 6:38AM and we’re looking at a sunset around 5:29PM. Early light's been kind to those hitting the bays, and the fish sure know it.

Today’s weather in the Galveston and Texas City area started mild, slight north breeze easing in after week's front—a classic November setup, which always fires up the bite across our marshes, shell banks, and jetties. Water cooled off, sitting mostly low to mid 70s. That’s got specks and reds on the move for sure. Skies are partly cloudy, and winds expected to hold about 8–13 mph, so not too blustery for the bay boats or waders.

Tides are making moves, too. According to NOAA predictions for Galveston Pier and Texas City Turning Basin, we’ve got a major high around 10:17PM tonight and the big fall starting from just after sunrise. The best window is right about now through noon, with water dropping fast—a prime time for ambush feeders to stack up along drains, marsh edges, and channels.

Recent catches around these waters have been strong for late fall. Galveston’s jetties and beachfront are seeing bull reds in the 15-pound class, absolute drag-burners on cut mullet or cracked crab soaking on bottom. Look for birds working near East and West Bay—where slicks and schooling speckled trout have been hammering glow/chartreuse soft plastics and, at first light, topwater plugs. Flounder are staging thick along outflows and ship channel edges—slow rolling live mud minnows, or bouncing root beer curly-tails, is the ticket.

Mixed bags have been coming to hand for anglers drifting with live shrimp under popping corks—expect reds, drum, and the odd slot trout all in the mix. Black drum reports are up in the deeper cuts on peeled shrimp and blue crab. Out deeper along the wrecks and rigs, red snapper season in Texas waters is still open, and charters have been putting good numbers of legal fish (four per person, minimum 15 inches) in the box trolling cigar minnows or bouncing heavy jigs tipped with squid.

Best lures lately:
- Glow/chartreuse soft plastics over shell for trout.
- Silver spoons and swimbaits for Spanish mackerel and slot reds in the surf.
- Topwater plugs (skitterwalks and spooks) at dawn.
- Root beer or avocado curly-tail jigs for flounder.
Bait-wise, you cannot beat live shrimp, mullet, or mud minnows this time of year.

Hot spots this week:
- South Jetty and Texas City Dike for bull reds and slot trout.
- East Bay shell reefs early for schoolie specks.
- San Luis Pass for a multi-species bite—flounder stacking on the outgoing tide and reds cruising the shallows.
- West Bay drains around Confederate Reef for the early topwater action.

If you’re boat-based, keep your eyes peeled for birds overhead. Wade fishing? Start windward post-front, then slide leeward as the sun warms. Whichever way you fish, work those moving tides and match your rod to your lure—soft plastics for plastics, bait for corks, and always keep a spoon ready for surprise blitzes.

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Artificial Lure reporting for the Gulf of Mexico, Texas coast, Sunday, November 9th, 2025. It’s a cool, calm morning with sunrise at 6:38 AM and sunset rolling in early at 5:27 PM. That gives you a generous window for chasing reds, trout, and flounder before the evening chill. We’ve got a low tide rolling through Texas City right around 1:29 PM, and your incoming high tops out a bit before midnight at 11:06 PM, lending itself to productive fishing from mid-morning through the afternoon slack tide, then picking back up as water starts to move this evening, according to tide-forecast.com.

Weather this morning started in the low 60s, with light southeasterly winds turning calm by midday. Skies are mostly clear, and water temps are holding between 82 and 87 degrees inshore—just about perfect for fall bites, as noted by Lone Star Outdoor News.

The bite’s on for **redfish**, with solid reports from Redfish Bay, Galveston Bay, and down to Matagorda. Anglers are hooking up using cut mullet and live shrimp near deeper guts and marsh drains. Slot reds and the occasional bull have been landed in Galveston and West Bay on mullet, with best action during moving tides. **Speckled trout** are heating up over shell in both East and West Galveston Bays. The live shrimp under popping cork is gold, but soft plastics, particularly in natural “glow” or chartreuse, are hot picks as per recent catches in the Texas Parks & Wildlife Galveston record logs.

Flounder are showing fair, sliding into their fall migration. Soft plastics on a slow bounce, live mullet, and even shrimp-imitating twitch baits are working great along sandy points and at passes. Freeport and Bolivar surf zones are producing both flounder and black drum. Don’t pass up a chance for a bonus mangrove snapper or sheepshead around jetties using shrimp or fiddler crabs.

Noteworthy: this week’s cooler snap has kept bait schools tight inshore, rewarding those willing to wait through slack tide—recent local catches include red drum up to 43 inches on cut mullet in Galveston, solid slot specks up to 26 inches on live shrimp, and southern flounder pushing 5 pounds on finger mullet.

**Top lures** for today:
- Paddle tail soft plastics in white or chartreuse for specks and reds, especially when water clarity is good.
- Shrimp imitations or live shrimp are a must for drum, sheepshead, and picky trout.
- Topwaters early over grass flats if you start before 9 AM—bone or chrome-colored.
- For flounder, use Gulp! swimming mullets or scented jerk shads fished low and slow.

If you want to target numbers, fish the guts and shell pads around **San Luis Pass** and the grass lines near **South Deer Island**—both have been producing steady mixed bags all week. The shoreline cuts near Texas City Dike and the surf just east of Galveston have seen flurries of red and trout action during incoming tide.

Remember, live bait rules the day when the bite gets stubborn, but those using soft plastics with a twitch-pause pattern are pulling in just as many when the tide’s right. Don’t forget a popping cork if the wind picks up, to call those trout up out of a little chop.

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This is Artificial Lure, dropping a fresh Gulf of Mexico Texas fishing report for Saturday, November 8, 2025. Good morning to all you salty hands and pier jumpers out there. Let’s get straight to the bite and what you can expect if you’re heading out today.

Sunrise warms the coast at 6:44AM, and you’ll want to be on the water by then—sunset pulls its curtain at 5:23PM, giving us a classic cool weather Texas fall window.

The weather’s settled into that north wind pattern after a front earlier in the week, and the bay waters are cooling—a prime time for those classic Gulf species to crank up their feed. Expect light to moderate northeast winds through midday and a high around 70°; not bad for November and just enough breeze to keep the bugs down.

Checking the tides, the Texas City and Galveston charts show an early morning high around 1:23AM, followed by a low tide at 8:29AM and the next high by midafternoon, just after 3:20PM, before the water falls again after dusk. These moving tides, especially that falling water through the morning and rise in the midafternoon, are your golden ticket for good action, especially near marsh drains, cuts, and edges according to Tide-Forecast.com.

For the fish: it’s prime time for bull reds, speckled trout, and flounder in the bays and surf. According to recent reports from Fishingreminder and Coastal Angler Magazine, the beachfront and jetties are loaded with big redfish—fresh mullet or cut bait on the bottom will get your heart pumping. Live shrimp under a popping cork is still king for those mixed bags in the bays, especially on deep reefs and shell with moving water.

Speckled trout are active over shell and around drains, especially at first light. Topwaters at dawn on a glassy morning are drawing blowups, but don’t be shy about working soft plastics in glow or chartreuse on a jighead, particularly as the sun comes up and that water starts to green up near shore.

Flounder have parked themselves along bayou mouths and channel edges—slow rolling a white or pink Gulp! Swimming Mullet or bouncing a live mud minnow works wonders as the tide falls.

Up on the surf, the mackerel are running and slot reds are cruising the first gut. A silver spoon or a 4 1/2-inch paddletail swimbait, like the ones recommended in Bassmaster’s redfish coverage, will do you right—chuck and wind until you find the school. If you’re tossing soft plastics, natural shad and pumpkinseed are both solid choices. And remember, after a front, the windward shoreline will stack the bait—follow the birds, they know where the groceries are.

Hot spots today? You can’t go wrong around the Texas City Dike, which is firing with schools of reds and trout, especially at the drop-offs along the channel side. Both the Galveston Yacht Basin and the adjacent marsh drains in West Bay are producing solid trout and the occasional doormat flounder. For land-based folks, any of the main harbor entrances—like Payco Marina or the Port of Galveston—are holding mixed bags, especially around tide changes.

For bait: get live shrimp if you can, or finger mullet for the big bruiser reds. Artificial fans should have a fast-moving silver spoon in one hand and a paddle tail in the other. This week’s baits-of-choice are bladed jigs and spinnerbaits for searching, then switch to topwaters or soft plastics as the light comes up.

Recent catches have been solid—bull reds, speckled trout up to five pounds, a handful of big flounder, and some nice slot black drum at night on fresh crab. Trout action is best early, with the reds getting boisterous on the slack tide turn.

That’s the lowdown from the Lower Coast all the way to Galveston—excellent conditions, hot bite, and plenty of options no matter your style. Thanks for tuning in to the report, don’t forget to subscribe for your daily edge on Texas Gulf fishing.

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Artificial Lure here with your Friday, November 7, 2025 fishing report for the Texas Gulf Coast. The air's crisp, the bite is strong, and we've got prime conditions to chase that drag-peeling action up and down the bays and jetties, from Galveston all the way south to Corpus.

Let’s start with your essentials: sunrise came at 6:43 a.m.; sunset’s due at 5:24 p.m. Tides around Galveston are on the move—high at 1:10 a.m. and 5:16 p.m., low near 8:59 a.m. According to Tide-Forecast, that gives you solid moving water all morning through early afternoon, which is money for November bay fishing.

Weather’s just about perfect—chilly mornings in the 50s, high pressure from that recent front, light north breeze, and high temps settling into the upper 60s. That drop’s got trout and reds fired up on shallow flats and moving around, especially where you’ve got bait stacking on those windward shorelines. Water clarity is good in most areas, greening up along the beachfront, which is exactly what you want this time of year.

Now, onto the bite. FishingReminder and local guides say it’s prime time for speckled trout in East and West Bays, especially over shell or near drains on moving tides. Bull reds are still running on the beachfront, jetties, and deeper passes—fresh cut mullet or shad on the bottom’s been putting plenty of brutes in the net. Don’t skip the marsh drains and bayou mouths either, where flounder are staging before their migration, ready to crush soft plastics or live mud minnows on falling tide. Black drum are holding in deeper channels, best taken with shrimp or blue crab pieces.

Recent catches have been all over the board: solid numbers of keeper and over-slot redfish off the Texas City Dike and the Galveston jetties, plus steady whacks on schoolie trout under the birds in the bays. Slot reds and flounder are sneaking along points near Offatts Bayou and Campbell Bayou. Corpus area reports see lots of specks and decent drum in Oso and Kates Hole, with sheepies hanging tight to structure.

Best lures right now? Can’t go wrong with soft plastics in glow or chartreuse for trout and flounder—rig ‘em on a 1/8- to 1/4-ounce jighead, slow and steady over shell or mud. Topwaters will get crushed at first light, especially on slick, windless mornings—Bone or chrome colors stand out. For reds in the surf, silver spoons, swimbaits, and big fresh cut bait do the trick. Nothing beats live shrimp under a popping cork for a mixed bag, especially along current seams and marsh edges. Coastal pros are also crushing it by tossing spinnerbaits and topwater plugs around marsh grass and oyster points.

Looking for a hot spot? Try the East Beach-to-Jetties stretch at Galveston for reds, flounder, and occasional mackerel. West Bay, especially near Jamaica Beach and Confederate Reef, is putting out solid trout early and late. In Corpus, Kates Hole and Oso Bay are productive on moving water, especially with a little cloud cover.

If you’re itching for somewhere off the beaten path, Campbell Bayou and Greens Bayou near Galveston are solid options for wade or kayak anglers focusing on redfish and flounder as the sun warms up the flats.

That’s your rundown for today—fish smart, follow the birds, match your bait to what you see in the water, and keep an eye on those tides. Thanks for tuning in, don’t forget to subscribe for daily Texas fishing insight.

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Artificial Lure here with your November 6, 2025 Gulf of Mexico, Texas fishing report—your quick fix for what’s biting, where to cast, and how to rig up for best results.

Sunrise hit at 6:42 AM, with sunset sliding in at 5:37 PM—plenty of daylight for wading, drifting, or chasing birds. Tides across the mid to upper coast are running softer today, with a low at 7:38 AM and a high swinging in about 4:24 PM around Corpus Christi, so time those moving water periods for peak bites. According to Tides4Fishing, we’re looking at a slack morning with a tidal coefficient around 36, rising moderate midday and ending near 50, meaning current’s a bit light but should pick up for the afternoon feed.

Weatherwise, forecasters from the National Weather Service call for cooler, stable November temps—mid-60s at sunrise, stretching toward the mid-70s by late morning. Winds are gentle out of the north by northwest at 8–12 knots, giving you slicks in the bays and only a faint chop offshore. Water clarity is good, especially after the weak front slid in Monday, pushing bait shallow and setting up textbook fall conditions.

If you’re itching for numbers, the 2025 red snapper run is breaking records—Texas Parks & Wildlife reports the longest federal season in history, still open ‘til November 21. Offshore, anglers continue to hammer big red snapper on deep structure, with a mess of mangrove snapper, king mackerel, and lingering mahi showing up east of Freeport and out near the Flower Gardens. For snapper, you can’t go wrong dropping down cut menhaden or squid on standard two-hook rigs, but the hottest bite is coming on glow soft plastics sweetened with a bit of bait—try a 6" chartreuse jig for extra action on the slow rise.

Back inshore, the bays and marsh drains are loaded: fall flounder are staging along channel edges from Galveston down to Port Aransas—most keepers taken early with live finger mullet or white gulp mullet on 1/4 oz jigheads. Texas Parks & Wildlife and Lone Star Outdoor News are reporting big schools of slot redfish prowling grassy shorelines, especially in the Upper Laguna Madre, Bird Island flats, and the spoil islands near the JFK Causeway. Sight-casters are scoring with gold spoons and natural paddle tails in clearer water, or switching to bright chartreuse and pink when it’s churned up. At first light, toss a bone-colored topwater—think Spook Jr or SkitterWalk—for specks on the grassy potholes.

Recent catches off the bulkheads and jetties include solid sheepshead and black drum, most falling for peeled shrimp on the bottom. Flounder action is best around outgoing tides at Packery Channel and Rollover Pass. If it’s bull reds you’re after, the surf along Bolivar Peninsula and the Port A jetties light up at dusk, especially on fresh cut mullet or crab.

A couple of hot spots for you:
- The East Flats of Galveston Bay are firing on moving tides for reds and trout—work the windward points or follow the birds diving on shrimp.
- Corpus Christi’s Oso Bay and the spoil islands off JFK Causeway hold numbers of flounder and reds, especially at dawn.

Best baits this week: Live shrimp, finger mullet, and cut menhaden. For artificials, go with 1/4 oz jigheads rigged with Gulp swimming mullet, Down South Lures, or paddletails from Chickenboy and Saltwater Assassin. Match your color to the clarity—keep it natural in trout green water, punch it up with chartreuse or pink if things are off-color.

That's the scoop for this week—get out there while the weather holds and tides swing, and don’t forget, always match your bait and technique to the water clarity and tide for the best results.

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