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CobiaShoulder seasonBar · Maryland
Hambrooks Bar
38.59°N · 76.08°W · Bar · Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River
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Best score today · 10 AM · Cobia
- Now
- 4810 PM EDT
- Best window
- 10 PM-12 AMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding1.0 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Monday, Oct 5 · 9 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
73Tide: FloodingCurrent: SlackWind & pressure
ECMWF
95Wind: 8 kt NWPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
92Water temp: 70°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Cobia
Species seasonality
29Off season · capped at 35Season: Off seasonHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
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.
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
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Hambrooks Bar
- Depth
- 3-15 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bar · Inner · Semi-exposedBar · slope
- 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 Hambrooks Bar
Hambrooks Bar is a bar in Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River, Maryland. Depth is 3-15 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bar, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are spot, bluefish and little tunny. It is peak season now for spot, little tunny, scup and Spanish mackerel, and shoulder season for bluefish, black sea bass, weakfish and Atlantic croaker. Spot peak from August through October. Bluefish peak in May and from October through November. Little tunny peak 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.
- 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.
- Bluefish
- Bluefish travel in size-sorted schools and feed where tide pushes bait past structure: inlet mouths, rips, shoal edges and the surf line, mostly in water shallower than 60 feet. Look for birds and breaking bait and cast metal or poppers into it, or soak cut bunker or mullet on the bottom from the beach. Use a short wire or heavy leader because their teeth cut light line.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Dickinson Bay74
Bay · 2.0 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 74
- Scup 72
- Sheepshead 69
12 kt NEH 2:15 AM · 2.2 ftL 8:53 AM · 0.8 ft
- Hambrooks Bay73
Bay · 0.2 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 73
- Scup 71
- Sheepshead 68
12 kt NEH 2:15 AM · 2.2 ftL 8:53 AM · 0.8 ft
- Hambrooke Point69
Cape · 0.3 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 69
- Spot 68
- Bluefish 65
12 kt NEH 2:15 AM · 2.2 ftL 8:53 AM · 0.8 ft
- Great Marsh Point69
Cape · 0.6 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 69
- Spot 68
- Bluefish 65
12 kt NEH 2:15 AM · 2.2 ftL 8:53 AM · 0.8 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 Maryland DNR before you keep a fish.