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Best score today · 8 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 6111 AM EDT
- Best window
- 1-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing2.4 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 11 AM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
32Tide: EbbingCurrent: SlackWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 6 kt NNEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
77Water temp: 68°F, primeLight: Bright sunSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 1.2 ftSeason & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
88Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
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 today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Scup is best here
Peak season for Scup · 1 more week at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
The Cove
- Depth
- 2-15 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · slope
- Season
- Peak 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 The Cove
The Cove is a bay in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. Depth is 2-15 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, little tunny and striped bass. It is peak season now for scup, little tunny, striped bass and bluefish, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Scup peak from June through September. Little tunny peak from September through October. Striped bass peak from May through June and 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Mussel Point63
Cape · 0.3 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 63
- Striped bass 63
- Bluefish 59
6 kt NNEL 11:31 AM · 2.3 ftH 5:27 PM · 9.1 ft
- Green Point63
Cape · 0.9 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 63
- Striped bass 63
- Bluefish 59
6 kt NNEL 11:31 AM · 2.3 ftH 5:27 PM · 9.1 ft
- Horseshoe Shoal61
Bar · 0.4 mi
Top: BluefishPeak season- Bluefish 61
- Little tunny 61
- Atlantic cod 55
6 kt NNEL 11:31 AM · 2.3 ftH 5:27 PM · 9.1 ft
- Moon Shoal61
Bar · 1.1 mi
Top: BluefishPeak season- Bluefish 61
- Little tunny 61
- Atlantic cod 55
6 kt NNEL 11:31 AM · 2.3 ftH 5:27 PM · 9.1 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.