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Best score today · 12 AM · Tautog

70/100Great

Now: 414 PM EDT
Best window: 4-9 PMEbb tide
Tide now: Ebbing1.1 ft ▼

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Mon · 78

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Conditions · 4 PM · now

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Time4PNOW

Score41Fair

Tide1.1 ft ▼Ebbing

CurrentFlood0.2 kn · toward N

Wind15 kn ENEgusts 27 · steady

Sea stateModerate2.1 ft · 3 s

Air temp67°Mild

WeatherOvercast100% chance of rain

Water75°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

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

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Source: Maryland DNR · synced today

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Tautog is best here

Shoulder season for Tautog · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Brickhouse Bar

Depth: 10-40 ftSlope
Structure: Bar · Inner · Semi-exposedBar · slope
Season: Shoulder seasonTautog

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 Brickhouse Bar

Brickhouse Bar is a bar in Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point to North Beach MD, Maryland. Depth is 10-40 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bar, inner water and semi-exposed.

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

Tackle & technique

Tautog: Tautog live in rocks, wrecks, bridge pilings and jetties and rarely stray from cover, usually in 10 to 60 feet inshore and deeper in late fall. Anchor so the bait sits in the structure, fish crab on a short rig or a tog jig, and set hard on the second tap before the fish pulls into the rocks. Clams and worms work better in cold spring water; hard crabs are the standard in fall.
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.
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.

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Top: Little tunnyPeak season
- Little tunny 60
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- Spanish mackerel 59
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