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Best score today · 7 PM · Scup
- Now
- 571 AM EST
- Best window
- 6-10 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing1.2 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
Friday, Nov 6 · 5 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
51Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.4 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
75Wind: 8 kt SSWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
88Water temp: 63°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 0.2 ftSeason & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
71Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Scup 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 yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Scup is best here
Shoulder season for Scup · 3 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Eastern Bay
- Depth
- 40-50 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonScup
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 Eastern Bay
Eastern Bay is a bay in Eastern Bay, Maryland. Depth is 40-50 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are striped bass, tautog and bluefish. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, bluefish and spotted seatrout, and shoulder season for weakfish, red drum, little tunny and spot. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Tautog peak in April and from October through December. Bluefish peak in May and from October through November.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Seth Point83
Cape · 3.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 83
- Spotted seatrout 76
- Bluefish 73
3 kt SEL 5:00 AM · 0.5 ftH 10:02 AM · 1.1 ft
- Wades Point81
Cape · 1.8 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 81
- Spotted seatrout 74
- Bluefish 72
3 kt SEL 5:00 AM · 0.5 ftH 10:02 AM · 1.1 ft
- Wells Cove78
Bay · 3.4 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 78
- Tautog 73
- Bluefish 72
3 kt SEL 5:00 AM · 0.5 ftH 10:02 AM · 1.1 ft
- Harbor Cove78
Bay · 4.5 mi
Top: Spotted seatroutPeak season- Spotted seatrout 78
- Striped bass 78
- Tautog 73
3 kt SEL 4:46 AM · 0.5 ftH 9:55 AM · 1.1 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.