Artificial Lure here, bringing you today’s fishing report straight from the heart of the Rio Grande Valley on this crisp Wednesday, November 26, 2025. We’ve just crested into late fall and that South Texas salt-sweet mash-up is delivering variety for anglers willing to work the tides and time their casts for the bite windows.

First up, **sunrise came in at 6:54 a.m.** with sunset slated for 5:39 p.m., so you’ve got a fat slice of daylight to work the water. According to the National Weather Service in Brownsville, we’re waking up to mild, overcast skies, temps rising to the mid-80s by afternoon and a soft southeast breeze at 8 to 12 mph. That means decent water clarity in the bay and river channels, but plan for a touch of chop on the main stem of the Rio Grande and around the jetties.

**Tides today show a high just after midnight topping out around 1.6 feet. The drop to a shallow low around 2 p.m. (roughly 0.1 feet) will have fish concentrated in deeper runs, cuts, and those first-drop shorelines, especially by late morning and through the outgoing tide midafternoon.** According to Fishing Reminder, the best feeding windows bracket sunrise (6:25–8:25 a.m.) and again near dusk (6:42–8:42 p.m.), so plan to work those edges.

**Recent catches have been strong for late November:**
- In the Rio Grande proper, local rods—channel cats, blue cats, and flatheads are hitting fresh-cut shad or chicken liver, especially around brush piles and deeper bends. Folks have been pulling in channels in the 3–6 lb range and blues pushing double digits at dawn.
- Upriver flats and backwaters are holding **Rio Grande cichlids** on small nightcrawler pieces or red wigglers under a float. These little bulldogs have been steady, with a few topping a pound, plenty for some panfish action for you and the kids.
- On the brackish fringes and south to the Laguna Madre, **redfish and speckled trout** are active. Reports from the mouth near Boca Chica and over by Port Isabel have folks landing slot reds on gold spoons and soft plastics, while **trout up to 20 inches** are crushing topwaters and live shrimp at first light over potholes and grass flats.
- **Flounder** are staging near drops and channels—bounce a white Gulp! swimming mullet on a ¼ oz jig, or drag live mud minnows along edges for a shot at that November door mat.
- A few **Spanish mackerel** and snook have been sighted cruising rock structure and bridge pilings, especially on moving tides.

**Bait and lure picks:**
- For cats, fresh-cut shad stays king.
- For reds: gold or copper spoons, finger-mullet–profile soft plastics, and topwaters just after sunrise.
- Speckled trout: chrome/blue topwaters at dawn, then switch to soft plastics in bone or shrimp colors—work ‘em with a twitch and pause.
- Flounder: Gulp! swimming mullet in white or pink, or live mud minnows on a Carolina rig.
- For cichlids and sunfish: small worms or chartreuse crappie jigs.
- Don’t overlook live shrimp under a popping cork for that mixed-bag slam.

**Hot spots:**
- Try the **Boca Chica jetties** around moving water, especially for reds, flounder, and the occasional snook.
- Upriver near the **Sabal Palm Grove Wildlife Sanctuary**—deep hondo bends dredged out in the low water pull in big catfish and gar.
- The **old Brownsville ship channel** is still producing mixed species and is a classic wintertime haunt.

That’s today’s rundown—weather’s good, bite’s right on schedule, and the water is alive. Thanks for tuning in, y’all! Remember to subscribe for more daily tips, and tight lines to everyone out there. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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