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Best score today · 12 AM · Cobia

76/100Great

Now: 454 PM EDT
Best window: 10 PM-12 AMFlood tide
Tide now: Ebbing1.0 ft ▼

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Fri · 83

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Conditions · 4 PM · now

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Time4PNOW

Score45Good

Tide1.0 ft ▼Ebbing

CurrentFlood0.4 kn · toward NNE

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 Cobia 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 Cobia is best here

Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Fishing Creek

Depth: 2-7 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Estuary · Inner · Semi-exposedEstuary · flat bottom
Season: Shoulder seasonCobia

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 Fishing Creek

Fishing Creek is a bay in Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point to North Beach MD, Maryland. Depth is 2-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads estuary, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and red drum. It is peak season now for scup, spot, red drum and summer flounder, and shoulder season for bluefish, Atlantic croaker, weakfish and black sea bass. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Red drum peak in May and from September through October.

Tackle & technique

Cobia: Cobia cruise inlets, beaches, buoys, wrecks and the backs of rays in 5 to 100 feet of water. On calm, sunny days sight-cast bucktails or live eels to fish near the surface. Otherwise anchor up-current of structure, chum, and fish live eels, crabs or menhaden near the bottom.
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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