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Best score today · 12 AM · Weakfish

73/100Great

Now: 569 AM EDT
Best window: 9 AM-1 PMHigh slack
Tide now: Flooding1.2 ft ▲

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Wed · 82

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Conditions · 9 AM · now

DRAG OR TAP AN HOUR

Time9ANOW

Score56Good

Tide1.2 ft ▲Flooding

CurrentSlack0.1 kn

Wind13 kn Egusts 22 · steady

Sea stateModerate2.0 ft · 3 s

Air temp73°Warm

WeatherMostly cloudy98% chance of rain

Water78°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Weakfish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with Maryland DNR before you keep a fish.

Always check with Maryland DNR ↗Fishing license ↗

Source: Maryland DNR · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Weakfish is best here

Shoulder season for Weakfish · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Chesapeake Bay

Depth: About 25 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
Season: Shoulder seasonWeakfish

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 Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay is a bay in Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith Point VA, Maryland. Depth is about 25 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are spot, scup and Spanish mackerel. It is peak season now for spot, scup, Spanish mackerel and sheepshead, and shoulder season for bluefish, Atlantic croaker, black sea bass and weakfish. Spot peak from August through October. Scup peak from June through October. Spanish mackerel peak from July through September.

Tackle & technique

Weakfish: Weakfish hold along channel edges, grass beds, oyster bars and bridge shadows in bays and sounds, usually in 5 to 40 feet of water, and feed hardest at dawn, dusk and after dark. Swim soft plastics or bucktails slowly near the bottom, or drift peeler crab and bloodworms. They have soft mouths, so keep the drag light and the pressure steady.
Spot: Spot school over mud and sand in bays, tidal creeks and channels and around piers and bridges, generally in less than 25 feet of water. Fish a two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and bits of bloodworm or shrimp, and move until you find a school. In fall the biggest fish run out of the sounds past piers and inlets, and the bite can go all day.
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.

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