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 6:38 AM and we’re looking at a sunset around 5:29 PM. 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 10:17 PM 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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