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Best score today · 12 AM · Winter flounder
- Now
- 298 PM EDT
- Best window
- 10 PM-12 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High8.6 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
Sunday, Oct 4 · 8 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.6 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
98Wind: 6 kt SSWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
74Water temp: 61°F, warmLight: DawnSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Winter flounder
Species seasonality
20Off season · capped at 35Season: Off seasonHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Winter flounder 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 Winter flounder is best here
Out of season for Winter flounder · it leaves in 10 weeks
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
False Spit
- Depth
- 9-45 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bar · Inner · Semi-exposedBar · slope
- Season
- Off seasonWinter flounder
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 False Spit
False Spit is a bar in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Depth is 9-45 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bar, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, little tunny and striped bass. It is peak season now for scup, little tunny, striped bass and bluefish, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Scup peak from June through September. Little tunny peak from September through October. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October.
Tackle & technique
- Winter flounder
- Winter flounder spend late winter and spring on mud and sand bottom in harbors, coves and tidal channels, often in 5 to 30 feet. Anchor, chum with crushed clams or mussels, and fish small long-shank hooks with worm or clam on the bottom, tapping the rig to stir up mud. The bite is light, so use a sensitive rod.
- 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.
- Little tunny
- Little tunny travel fast in schools that pin bait against inlets, points, jetties and tide rips, usually within a few miles of shore and often in less than 60 feet. Stay off the school's path, wait for it to surface within range, and cast small metal or epoxy jigs with a fast retrieve. When fish stay down, troll small feathers along bait edges and color changes to find them.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Black Rock Channel76
Gut · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 76
- Striped bass 62
- Black sea bass 61
4 kt ENEL 2:36 AM · 1.4 ftH 8:52 AM · 7.8 ft
- Toddy Rocks76
Bar · 0.8 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 76
- Black sea bass 61
- Bluefish 60
4 kt ENEL 2:41 AM · 1.5 ftH 8:57 AM · 8.0 ft
- Nash Rock Shoal68
Bar · 0.9 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 68
- Bluefish 60
- Little tunny 60
4 kt ENEL 2:36 AM · 1.4 ftH 8:52 AM · 7.8 ft
- Great Brewster Spit67
Flat · 0.6 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 67
- Little tunny 63
- Striped bass 62
4 kt ENEL 2:36 AM · 1.4 ftH 8:52 AM · 7.8 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.