"Texas Gulf Coast Fishing Report: Reds, Trout, and Flounder Biting Strong on the Fall Bite"

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 This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.