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Best score today · 6 AM · Scup
- Now
- 3410 PM EST
- Best window
- 10 PM-12 AMFalling pressure
- Tide now
- Ebbing0.3 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Saturday, Nov 14 · 6 AM
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Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
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Wind & pressure
ECMWF
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Water temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
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Season & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Scup is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with MassDMF before you keep a fish.
Source: MassDMF · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Scup is best here
Out of season for Scup · it leaves next week
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Devils Back
- Depth
- 25-40 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bar · Inner · Semi-exposedBar · slope
- Season
- Off seasonScup
NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 13 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below NAVD 88, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.
About this spot
Fishing Devils Back
Devils Back is a bar in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Depth is 25-40 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bar, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are striped bass, tautog and Atlantic cod. It is peak season now for tautog, and shoulder season for striped bass, Atlantic cod, haddock and little tunny. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Tautog peak in May and from October through November. Atlantic cod peak from May through June and from September through October.
Tackle & technique
- Scup
- Scup school over hard and mixed bottom, rock piles, mussel beds, piers and jetties, usually in 10 to 60 feet of water. Fish a high-low rig with small hooks and squid or clam strips on the bottom, and chum with clam to hold a school under the boat. If nothing bites within 15 minutes, move to the next piece of structure.
- Striped bass
- Striped bass feed where moving tide pushes bait past structure: inlets, points, jetties, bridge pilings and rips in the surf, usually in 2 to 40 feet of water. Fish dawn, dusk and night hardest, casting plugs, bucktails and soft plastics or drifting live bunker and eels, and chunk bait on the bottom in current. In midsummer the larger fish drop deeper or feed mostly after dark.
- Tautog
- Tautog live in rocks, wrecks, bridge pilings and jetties and rarely stray from cover, usually in 10 to 60 feet inshore and deeper in late fall. Anchor so the bait sits in the structure, fish crab on a short rig or a tog jig, and set hard on the second tap before the fish pulls into the rocks. Clams and worms work better in cold spring water; hard crabs are the standard in fall.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Halftide Rocks64
Bar · 0.4 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 64
- Atlantic cod 56
- Striped bass 56
8 kt WSWL 10:28 PM · 0.1 ftH 4:48 AM · 8.7 ft
- Boston North Channel64
Channel · 1.0 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 64
- Tautog 57
- Atlantic cod 48
8 kt WSWL 10:26 PM · 0.2 ftH 4:48 AM · 8.8 ft
- Boston South Channel63
Channel · 0.5 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 63
- Tautog 57
- Atlantic cod 48
8 kt WSWL 10:28 PM · 0.1 ftH 4:48 AM · 8.7 ft
- Hypocrite Channel61
Channel · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 61
- Tautog 60
- Atlantic cod 55
8 kt WSWL 10:28 PM · 0.1 ftH 4:48 AM · 8.7 ft
Scores and forecasts are for planning only and can be wrong. Conditions on the water change fast; check the marine forecast before you go. Regulations change during the season, so confirm limits and closures with MassDMF before you keep a fish.