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HaddockPeak season

Bay · Massachusetts

Loagy Bay

41.90°N · 70.01°W · Bay · Cape Cod Bay

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Best score today · 12 AM · Haddock

76/100Great
Now
615 AM EDT
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5-9 AMFlood tide
Tide now
Flooding4.8 ft ▲

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24-hour conditions

Thursday, Oct 1 · 5 PM

Time5P
Score58Good
Tide9.9 ft ▼Ebbing
Wind11 kn NEgusts 14 · steady
Air temp61°Mild
WeatherOvercast99% cloud
Water59°FPersisted

Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

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

Peak season for Haddock · 1 more week at peak

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Haddock in Massachusetts

Spot profile

Loagy Bay

Depth
1-5 ftFlat bottom
Structure
Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · 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 Loagy Bay

Loagy Bay is a bay in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. Depth is 1-5 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.

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

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.
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.

Nearby spots

Other spots within an easy run

  • 78
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 78
    • Scup 73
    • Black sea bass 70

    6 kt ESEH 8:13 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:19 PM · 2.5 ft

  • Wellfleet Harbor

    Bay · 2.0 mi

    78
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 78
    • Scup 73
    • Black sea bass 71

    6 kt ESEH 8:13 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:19 PM · 2.5 ft

  • Drummer Cove

    Bay · 0.9 mi

    72
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 72
    • Scup 71
    • Bluefish 70

    6 kt ESEH 8:13 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:19 PM · 2.5 ft

  • Duck Creek

    Bay · 2.1 mi

    72
    Top: Striped bassPeak season
    • Striped bass 72
    • Scup 71
    • Bluefish 70

    6 kt ESEH 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.