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Fall Fishing Frenzy: St. Augustine's Top Bites and Hotspots for October 2025
Published 6 months ago
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Artificial Lure here with your St. Augustine fishing report for Tuesday, October 28, 2025, bringing you the latest action and best local tips straight from the water.
Let’s start with the **tide and sun:**
Today’s first low tide rolls in at 6:58 AM, right before sunrise at 7:36 AM. The first high tide peaks at 1:28 PM and sunset hits at 6:41 PM, so your golden windows for fish activity are around those tide changes—especially early morning and late afternoon when the bite is hottest according to Tide-Forecast.com and Surfline.
**Weather’s shaping up mild, with cooler early mornings and light easterly winds—perfect for topwater and shallow flats action.** The mullet run is trickling through, so expect plenty of bait around the inlets and beaches. A few passing cold fronts have pushed water temps down, which fires up the fall bite and brings those fish into the creeks, surf, and bridge zones.
**What’s biting:**
Recent reports from the St Augustine Daily Fishing Report and Captain Experiences say redfish are stacked in the creeks and intracoastal marsh edges. Most are slot-size, mixed with over-slot fish (remember the regs for harvest!). Speckled trout are hammering bait in the deeper holes, especially on moving tides; a few trophy trout up to 22 inches have been landed lately. Flounder are still showing around the bridges and creek mouths, with live finger mullet or mud minnows getting the best action.
Out on the beaches and near Pier, pompano are pushing up, hitting hard on the sandbars alongside whiting and scattered bluefish. The first trough is holding smaller game, while the deeper holes at high tide are producing the bigger slabs. Shark and jack crevalle action remains solid for those dropping cut bait at dusk.
**Best baits and lures:**
- For reds and trout: Live shrimp or mullet on a popping cork. Artificials like paddle-tail swimbaits (D.O.A. or Z-Man), MirrOlure suspending twitch baits, or Rapala X-Raps have been killer, especially around high tide marsh points and oyster bars.
- Flounder: Can’t beat a mud minnow or finger mullet dragged slowly on the bottom. If you like plastics, toss a 1/2-oz jighead with a curly-tail or jerkbait—add a strip of FishBites or Pro-Cure to seal the deal.
- Pompano and whiting: Fishbites, sand fleas, and fresh shrimp are the gold standard in the surf. For lures, Goofy jigs or Lil John jerkbaits work in the troughs.
- For bigger species like jack crevalle and bluefish, go with cut mullet or menhaden on heavier rigs.
**Hot spots this week:**
- **Vilano Bridge** and **Porpoise Point** are both producing flounder and reds, especially around the tide changes.
- The **Matanzas Inlet flats** are holding trout and slot reds early, while the deeper drop-offs near St. Augustine Pier are great for pompano and whiting as we near the midday high tide.
- For surf anglers, target the sandbars and troughs just north of the pier for consistent action—especially after that early low tide.
If you're working artificials, hit the creek mouths on the outgoing tide with twitch baits, or fish early in the day at the marsh edges with noisy topwater lures. Give yourself an edge by matching the hatch—use lures that mimic finger mullet and small shrimp, especially while that late mullet run is still feeding the bite.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Let’s start with the **tide and sun:**
Today’s first low tide rolls in at 6:58 AM, right before sunrise at 7:36 AM. The first high tide peaks at 1:28 PM and sunset hits at 6:41 PM, so your golden windows for fish activity are around those tide changes—especially early morning and late afternoon when the bite is hottest according to Tide-Forecast.com and Surfline.
**Weather’s shaping up mild, with cooler early mornings and light easterly winds—perfect for topwater and shallow flats action.** The mullet run is trickling through, so expect plenty of bait around the inlets and beaches. A few passing cold fronts have pushed water temps down, which fires up the fall bite and brings those fish into the creeks, surf, and bridge zones.
**What’s biting:**
Recent reports from the St Augustine Daily Fishing Report and Captain Experiences say redfish are stacked in the creeks and intracoastal marsh edges. Most are slot-size, mixed with over-slot fish (remember the regs for harvest!). Speckled trout are hammering bait in the deeper holes, especially on moving tides; a few trophy trout up to 22 inches have been landed lately. Flounder are still showing around the bridges and creek mouths, with live finger mullet or mud minnows getting the best action.
Out on the beaches and near Pier, pompano are pushing up, hitting hard on the sandbars alongside whiting and scattered bluefish. The first trough is holding smaller game, while the deeper holes at high tide are producing the bigger slabs. Shark and jack crevalle action remains solid for those dropping cut bait at dusk.
**Best baits and lures:**
- For reds and trout: Live shrimp or mullet on a popping cork. Artificials like paddle-tail swimbaits (D.O.A. or Z-Man), MirrOlure suspending twitch baits, or Rapala X-Raps have been killer, especially around high tide marsh points and oyster bars.
- Flounder: Can’t beat a mud minnow or finger mullet dragged slowly on the bottom. If you like plastics, toss a 1/2-oz jighead with a curly-tail or jerkbait—add a strip of FishBites or Pro-Cure to seal the deal.
- Pompano and whiting: Fishbites, sand fleas, and fresh shrimp are the gold standard in the surf. For lures, Goofy jigs or Lil John jerkbaits work in the troughs.
- For bigger species like jack crevalle and bluefish, go with cut mullet or menhaden on heavier rigs.
**Hot spots this week:**
- **Vilano Bridge** and **Porpoise Point** are both producing flounder and reds, especially around the tide changes.
- The **Matanzas Inlet flats** are holding trout and slot reds early, while the deeper drop-offs near St. Augustine Pier are great for pompano and whiting as we near the midday high tide.
- For surf anglers, target the sandbars and troughs just north of the pier for consistent action—especially after that early low tide.
If you're working artificials, hit the creek mouths on the outgoing tide with twitch baits, or fish early in the day at the marsh edges with noisy topwater lures. Give yourself an edge by matching the hatch—use lures that mimic finger mullet and small shrimp, especially while that late mullet run is still feeding the bite.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe for daily updates and tips straight from the dock. 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