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HaddockPeak season

Cape · Massachusetts

Cobbs Point

41.77°N · 70.09°W · Cape · Cape Cod Bay

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Best score today · 4 AM · Haddock

79/100Great
Now
517 AM EDT
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4-8 PMFlood tide
Tide now
Flooding7.8 ft ▲

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24-hour conditions

Saturday, Oct 3 · 7 PM

Time7P
Score46Good
Tide9.0 ft ▼Ebbing
Wind15 kn WSWgusts 25 · steady
Air temp67°Mild
WeatherMostly cloudy79% cloud
Water62°FPersisted

Current regulations

What you can keep here today

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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

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When Haddock is best here

Peak season for Haddock · 1 more week at peak

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Haddock in Massachusetts

Spot profile

Cobbs Point

Depth
3-5 ftFlat bottom
Structure
Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · flat bottom
Season
Peak 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 Cobbs Point

Cobbs Point is a cape in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. Depth is 3-5 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and little tunny. It is peak season now for scup, striped bass, little tunny and bluefish, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Scup peak from June through September. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. 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.
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

  • Frostfish Cove

    Bay · 6.3 mi

    74
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 74
    • Scup 73
    • Little tunny 71

    13 kt NNEH 10:27 AM · 2.7 ftL 5:16 PM · 0.8 ft

  • Namequoit River

    Bay · 6.5 mi

    74
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 74
    • Scup 73
    • Little tunny 71

    13 kt NNEH 10:27 AM · 2.7 ftL 5:16 PM · 0.8 ft

  • Nobscusset Point

    Cape · 5.3 mi

    70
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 70
    • Striped bass 70
    • Scup 69

    11 kt NNEH 7:53 AM · 8.1 ftL 1:52 PM · 2.2 ft

  • Billingsgate Shoal

    Bar · 5.5 mi

    68
    Top: ScupPeak season
    • Scup 68
    • Bluefish 66
    • Little tunny 66

    13 kt NNEH 8:13 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:19 PM · 2.5 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.