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Best score today · 3 AM · Haddock
- Now
- 605 AM EDT
- Best window
- 5-8 AMHigh slack
- Tide now
- Flooding1.1 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
Wednesday, Sep 23 · 11 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
97Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.1 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 10 kt NEPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
37Water temp: 67°F, hotLight: NightSolunar: Major periodSeas: 4.5 ftSeason & habitat · Haddock
Species seasonality
84Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: 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
Peak season for Haddock · 1 more week at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Juniper Point
- Depth
- 8-40 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · drop-off
- 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 Juniper Point
Juniper Point is a cape in Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts. Depth in the nearest water is 8-40 ft, with a drop-off. 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
- Red Ledge74
Bar · 0.4 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 74
- Bluefish 64
- Little tunny 62
6 kt NNEH 5:35 AM · 1.5 ftL 11:46 AM · 0.7 ft
- Parker Flats73
Flat · 0.3 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 73
- Atlantic cod 60
- Black sea bass 60
6 kt NNEH 5:35 AM · 1.5 ftL 11:46 AM · 0.7 ft
- Little Harbor72
Bay · 0.2 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 72
- Striped bass 71
- Bluefish 68
6 kt NNEH 5:42 AM · 1.2 ftL 1:20 PM · 0.3 ft
- Nonamesset Point72
Cape · 0.4 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 72
- Little tunny 70
- Bluefish 68
6 kt NNEH 5:42 AM · 1.2 ftL 1:20 PM · 0.3 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.