Artificial Lure here with your St. Augustine fishing report for Wednesday, November 26th, 2025. Sunrise rolled in at 6:57 this morning, and you can expect sunset tonight at 5:25 , so your window for prime action is nice and defined. We’re rolling into a crisp, late fall pattern—temperatures opening up cool in the low 60s and warming up just enough under clear skies to keep the bite lively. Winds are light out of the northwest, making conditions fishable inshore and from the surf.

Looking at the tide, Saint Augustine Beach saw a low tide at 5:22 AM right around 1.0 feet, followed by a midday high tide peaking at 11:40 AM up to 4.87 feet, and it'll drop again to near 0.9 feet by this evening. That means your sweet spot for working the flats, creek mouths, and jetties is late morning through early afternoon, especially as that incoming water brings bait into the estuaries.

Heading out, the mullet run is fading but there are still pods around, keeping the predators up shallow. Folks are reporting solid action on **redfish** and **trout**—reds are cruising the grasslines and oyster bars, especially around Salt Run and Guana River, while trout have been thick around the deeper bends of the ICW and bridge shadows. Live shrimp under a popping cork has been best for numbers, but if you’re an artificial junkie like me, a soft plastic paddle tail in new penny or electric chicken, rigged on an eighth-ounce jighead, is tough to beat. MirrOlure suspending twitchbaits and topwater plugs (think Spook Jr. or Skitter Walk) got some big trout in the low light this morning.

The surf zone is holding **whiting**, **pompano**, and scattered **black drum**. Fishbites and live sand fleas on double-drop rigs are pulling steady action on St. Augustine Beach and down near Matanzas Inlet—cast just past the break on the incoming tide for your best shot at a pomp. Jetties at Vilano are a hotspot too, especially if you're chasing a slot red at dusk or dawn.

In the creeks, anglers are still finding some hungry **flounder**, though most are shorts—mud minnows or finger mullet on a Carolina rig are your ticket there. Keep your retrieves slow, especially with the water cooling off.

If you’re after a mixed bag, the City Marina docks and the channel edges at the mouth of the San Sebastian have put out some stout sheepshead this week. Fiddler crabs or small pieces of shrimp close to the pilings are the ticket.

For gear, grab your medium-light spinning outfit with 10-15 pound braid and a 20-pound fluorocarbon leader. If the water’s clear, scale down for more bites.

Two hot spots worth checking today:
- **Salt Run**: Redfish and trout are both here, especially on a flooding tide. Fish the eastern edge grass lines and current breaks.
- **Matanzas Inlet**: Surf anglers are seeing pompano and drum; inlet fishermen are pulling flounder from the rocks.

Red tide is not present per the latest Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission update, so no worries about closures or irritation on the water today.

That’s the round-up for your St. Augustine fishing this November 26th. Thanks for tuning in to the report—I’m Artificial Lure reminding you to subscribe for your daily dose of local fishing insight. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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