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Stellar Catches on the Rio Grande - Your Friday Fishing Report for October 24, 2025.
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Good morning from the lower Rio Grande, Texas. This is Artificial Lure with your Friday fishing report for October 24, 2025.
Sunrise hit the water at 7:37 AM today, and we’ll be fishing daylight until sunset at 6:58 PM. Skies are mostly clear, humidity sits high at around 70%, and it’s another hot one—yesterday tapped 101°F according to Hawaii Weather Today, and we’re feeling the tail end of that heat wave on the water. Expect light east to southeast winds, just 5 to 10 knots, making for easy drifting and mostly calm bay and Gulf conditions per the NWS forecast out of Brownsville. The waters are seeing just a light chop—perfect for a full day on your favorite flats or the channel edges.
Tide action today is moderate, with a morning high around 8:40 AM, falling to a slack low mid-afternoon near 3:15 PM. If you’re planning to time your cast for peak bites, the best solunar activity lines up mid-morning through lunch, and again just after sundown, according to Solunar Forecast and NOAA tides.
Now for the action: this week, anglers are reporting stellar catches on all the usual Rio Grande suspects. Redfish, speckled trout, and flounder are being hauled in with regularity. According to recent logs and Captain Experiences, reds are pushing shallows early before heading deep, while specks have been schooling up around drop-offs, especially during change-of-tide periods. Some anglers out with Damn Good Guides reported quick limits with chunky trout up to 23”, plus tailing reds pushing over grass in two feet of water.
The Arroyo Colorado and South Bay have both fished hot—look for bird activity and bait flips near the Sal Del Rey cut and the spoil banks off the ship channel. Boca Chica Beach, always popular, saw a nice run of slot reds on Wednesday, and the lower Laguna Madre flats gave up some big flounder to giggers and soft-plastic slingers last night.
For baits and lures: reds are hitting gold spoons, Gulp! shrimp (new penny or glow), and live shrimp under popping corks. Specks are lighting up on topwaters at first light—think Super Spooks in bone or chrome, as well as classic MirrOlures and DOA soft plastics. With the water clarity holding fair to stained, keep your colors natural early and bright as the sun climbs. For live bait, you can’t beat shrimp or finger mullet right now.
If it’s catfish or something offbeat you seek, the channel edges east of Brownsville are producing fine blue and channel cats on cut shad and stinkbait. Night anglers are also picking up some fat gar and the occasional big drum near the bridges.
Hot spots today:
- The Arroyo Colorado mouth and nearby spoil islands, best with a slow-drift popping cork rig for trout and reds.
- Boca Chica surf, especially at daybreak for reds on spoons or cut bait.
- Shallow flats near South Bay for sight-casting at cruising reds with paddle tails or live shrimp.
- The Brownsville Ship Channel for a mix of drum, snook, and the odd tarpon.
If you’re heading out, don’t forget your fishing license and be sure to mind posted bag limits—it’s a busy weekend ahead of another front pushing in early next week.
Thanks as always for tuning in to today’s Rio Grande fishing report. Subscribe for daily bites, and here’s wishing tight lines for all y’all this weekend! This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Sunrise hit the water at 7:37 AM today, and we’ll be fishing daylight until sunset at 6:58 PM. Skies are mostly clear, humidity sits high at around 70%, and it’s another hot one—yesterday tapped 101°F according to Hawaii Weather Today, and we’re feeling the tail end of that heat wave on the water. Expect light east to southeast winds, just 5 to 10 knots, making for easy drifting and mostly calm bay and Gulf conditions per the NWS forecast out of Brownsville. The waters are seeing just a light chop—perfect for a full day on your favorite flats or the channel edges.
Tide action today is moderate, with a morning high around 8:40 AM, falling to a slack low mid-afternoon near 3:15 PM. If you’re planning to time your cast for peak bites, the best solunar activity lines up mid-morning through lunch, and again just after sundown, according to Solunar Forecast and NOAA tides.
Now for the action: this week, anglers are reporting stellar catches on all the usual Rio Grande suspects. Redfish, speckled trout, and flounder are being hauled in with regularity. According to recent logs and Captain Experiences, reds are pushing shallows early before heading deep, while specks have been schooling up around drop-offs, especially during change-of-tide periods. Some anglers out with Damn Good Guides reported quick limits with chunky trout up to 23”, plus tailing reds pushing over grass in two feet of water.
The Arroyo Colorado and South Bay have both fished hot—look for bird activity and bait flips near the Sal Del Rey cut and the spoil banks off the ship channel. Boca Chica Beach, always popular, saw a nice run of slot reds on Wednesday, and the lower Laguna Madre flats gave up some big flounder to giggers and soft-plastic slingers last night.
For baits and lures: reds are hitting gold spoons, Gulp! shrimp (new penny or glow), and live shrimp under popping corks. Specks are lighting up on topwaters at first light—think Super Spooks in bone or chrome, as well as classic MirrOlures and DOA soft plastics. With the water clarity holding fair to stained, keep your colors natural early and bright as the sun climbs. For live bait, you can’t beat shrimp or finger mullet right now.
If it’s catfish or something offbeat you seek, the channel edges east of Brownsville are producing fine blue and channel cats on cut shad and stinkbait. Night anglers are also picking up some fat gar and the occasional big drum near the bridges.
Hot spots today:
- The Arroyo Colorado mouth and nearby spoil islands, best with a slow-drift popping cork rig for trout and reds.
- Boca Chica surf, especially at daybreak for reds on spoons or cut bait.
- Shallow flats near South Bay for sight-casting at cruising reds with paddle tails or live shrimp.
- The Brownsville Ship Channel for a mix of drum, snook, and the odd tarpon.
If you’re heading out, don’t forget your fishing license and be sure to mind posted bag limits—it’s a busy weekend ahead of another front pushing in early next week.
Thanks as always for tuning in to today’s Rio Grande fishing report. Subscribe for daily bites, and here’s wishing tight lines for all y’all this weekend! This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI