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Best score today · 3 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 697 AM EDT
- Best window
- 9-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing1.2 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, Oct 3 · 7 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.3 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
83Wind: 7 kt SWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
94Water temp: 65°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
93Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Little tunny is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with MassDMF before you keep a fish.
Source: MassDMF · synced yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Little tunny is best here
Peak season for Little tunny · 4 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Quissett Harbor
- Depth
- 1-20 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · slope
- Season
- Peak seasonLittle tunny
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 Quissett Harbor
Quissett Harbor is a bay in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Depth is 1-20 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are little tunny, scup and striped bass. It is peak season now for little tunny, scup, striped bass and black sea bass, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Little tunny peak from September through October. Scup peak from June through September. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Gansett Point74
Cape · 0.3 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 74
- Striped bass 71
- Bluefish 68
10 kt NNEL 10:54 AM · 0.8 ftH 5:28 PM · 1.9 ft
- Little Harbor73
Bay · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 73
- Little tunny 70
- Black sea bass 68
10 kt NNEL 12:23 PM · 0.4 ftH 5:19 PM · 1.2 ft
- Penzance72
Cape · 1.3 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 72
- Striped bass 70
- Bluefish 67
10 kt NNEL 10:54 AM · 0.8 ftH 5:28 PM · 1.9 ft
- Parker Flats70
Flat · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 70
- Black sea bass 67
- Atlantic cod 66
10 kt NNEL 10:54 AM · 0.8 ftH 5:28 PM · 1.9 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.