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Best score today · 5 PM · Haddock
- Now
- 3812 AM EDT
- Best window
- 3-6 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding3.3 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
Friday, Nov 13 · 11 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
27Tide: EbbingCurrent: 2.3 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
55Wind: 9 kt NPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
4Water temp: 59°F, hotLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Haddock
Species seasonality
40Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: Out of range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Haddock 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 Haddock is best here
Shoulder season for Haddock · 4 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Rams Head
- Depth
- 7-35 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonHaddock
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 Rams Head
Rams Head is a cape in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Depth in the nearest water is 7-35 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are striped bass, tautog and little tunny. It is peak season now for tautog, and shoulder season for striped bass, little tunny, Atlantic cod and haddock. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Tautog peak in May and from October through November. Little tunny peak from September through October.
Tackle & technique
- Haddock
- Haddock feed on gravel, sand and clay bottom along the edges of banks and ledges, mostly in 120 to 400 feet. They have small, soft mouths, so fish clam or squid on small hooks on a high-low rig, or a light jig with teasers, right on the bottom. Set the hook gently and keep steady pressure on the way up.
- 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
- Tarpaulin Cove71
Bay · 1.6 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 71
- Striped bass 65
- Atlantic cod 55
3 kt NH 1:26 AM · 3.6 ftL 5:42 AM · 0.5 ft
- French Watering Place70
Bay · 1.6 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 70
- Atlantic cod 63
- Striped bass 61
3 kt NH 1:24 AM · 2.2 ftL 6:52 AM · 0.3 ft
- Kettle Cove64
Bay · 0.5 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 64
- Tautog 63
- Little tunny 52
3 kt NH 1:26 AM · 3.6 ftL 5:42 AM · 0.5 ft
- Naushon Point63
Cape · 2.1 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 63
- Tautog 55
- Little tunny 51
3 kt NH 1:06 AM · 3.5 ftL 5:12 AM · 0.5 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.