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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