New Orleans Saturday Fishing Report: Trout, Reds, and Rigs on Fire

Artificial Lure here with your Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans fishing report for Saturday, November 8th, 2025. We’re off to a crisp start this Saturday—cooler air rolled in overnight and the winds are hovering out the north-northeast at 10 to 15 knots, gusting higher mid-morning. Skies are mostly clear, but prepare for a little increase in cloud cover this afternoon according to NOAA’s marine forecast. Water temps are sitting right at 67°F, so the bite’s still steady but fish are thinking fall patterns. Tides today in the greater New Orleans area are showing a high at 8:08 AM, cresting just under 0.8 feet, and we’ll be dropping out with a low at 9:35 PM at only 0.18 feet, per Tide-Forecast and Tides4Fishing. Sunrise came up at 6:20 AM; sunset’s at 5:07 PM. That big outgoing tide all day means bait’s getting flushed from the grass and marsh, so gamefish will be staging on points and drains. Fishing action lately has been downright solid. Spreaker’s November update says speckled trout and redfish are on fire in the marshes and passes. Recent catches are seeing limits of school trout—mostly 13 to 16 inches, but plenty of keepers—coming out of Lake Borgne, Chef Menteur Pass, and the nearshore rigs off Shell Beach. Popping corks rigged with Matrix Shad, Vudu Shrimp, or live shrimp continue to hammer ‘em. Early risers working light popping corks just inside the Biloxi Marsh have had easy limits, cracking that first hour after sunup. Redfish are stacking in the ponds and along the Roseau cane edges from Delacroix to Hopedale. I heard from Captain Chase out by Shell Beach on November 3rd that his party caught their limit of big reds—eight more going back in the water—and gigged four flounder before weather rolled in (via Captain Experiences). Cut mullet and shrimp on jigheads are top, but if you want serious fun, tie on a gold spoon or a chartreuse spinnerbait and bump it along the grass points. As for offshore: when weather lets you slip through the passes, the nearshore rigs are producing hefty sheepshead, black drum, and a few lingering mangrove snapper. If you’re lucky, you might still tangle with a bull red out there busting up the menhaden schools. The live bait bite’s reliable, but don’t overlook a strip of cut squid for those drum. Best lures and baits this week: - Matrix Shad (Lemonhead or Shrimp Creole colors) - Vudu Shrimp under a popping cork - 3” Gulp! Swimming Mullet (white or chartreuse) - Gold spoons for reds - Live shrimp or finger mullet when you can get ‘em - Cut mullet or menhaden for the big boys Hot spots right now? Try Rigolets Pass—trout are loaded up at the mouths of the deeper cuts. Shell Beach is producing mixed bags off the rocks and easy access to the marshes. Southshore anglers should check Bayou Bienvenue locks for drum and flounder—work the eddies on the falling tide. One heads up: there’s chatter about the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission considering adjustments to the menhaden (pogy) buffer zones, which m This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.