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Best score today · 7 AM · Scup
- Now
- 3111 AM EST
- Best window
- 7-10 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing0.6 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
Tuesday, Nov 17 · 4 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 yesterday
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
Shell Point
- Depth
- 2-10 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · flat bottom
- 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 Shell Point
Shell Point is a cape in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Depth is 2-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
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
- 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
- East River67
Channel · 0.6 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 67
- Tautog 59
- Atlantic cod 48
9 kt SSWL 12:14 PM · 0.4 ftH 5:28 PM · 3.7 ft
- Shell Point Bay66
Bay · 0.3 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 66
- Tautog 64
- Little tunny 52
9 kt SSWL 12:14 PM · 0.4 ftH 5:28 PM · 3.7 ft
- Sunset Cove66
Bay · 0.3 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 66
- Tautog 64
- Little tunny 52
9 kt SSWL 12:14 PM · 0.4 ftH 5:28 PM · 3.7 ft
- Sunset Island65
Cape · 0.4 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 65
- Striped bass 63
- Atlantic cod 53
9 kt SSWL 12:14 PM · 0.4 ftH 5:28 PM · 3.7 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.