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Best score today · 3 PM · Spotted seatrout
- Now
- 5411 AM EST
- Best window
- 3-5 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High1.2 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 13 · 4 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
96Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.7 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
54Wind: 9 kt NNEPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
84Water temp: 60°F, coolLight: DuskSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Spotted seatrout
Species seasonality
75Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Spotted seatrout 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 Spotted seatrout is best here
Peak season for Spotted seatrout · 3 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Seth Point
- Depth
- 2-10 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · slope
- Season
- Peak seasonSpotted seatrout
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 Seth Point
Seth Point is a cape in Eastern Bay, Maryland. Depth in the nearest water is 2-10 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and tautog. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, black sea bass and bluefish, and shoulder season for scup, spot, little tunny and weakfish. Scup peak from June through October. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Tautog peak in April and from October through December.
Tackle & technique
- Spotted seatrout
- Trout hold over grass beds and sandy potholes in 2 to 8 feet of water most of the year and slide into channels, deep creek bends and canals during cold snaps. A live shrimp under a slip or popping cork, a paddle tail on a light jighead, or a topwater walked at first light covers most situations. Keep the drag light because their mouths tear easily.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Wells Cove68
Bay · 2.1 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 68
- Tautog 60
- Spot 58
7 kt SL 5:43 PM · 0.4 ftH 11:48 PM · 1.4 ft
- Eastern Bay68
Bay · 3.5 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 68
- Tautog 60
- Spot 56
7 kt SL 5:43 PM · 0.4 ftH 11:48 PM · 1.4 ft
- Bennett Point65
Cape · 3.1 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 65
- Striped bass 59
- Tautog 57
7 kt SL 5:43 PM · 0.4 ftH 11:48 PM · 1.4 ft
- Wades Point63
Cape · 2.2 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 63
- Striped bass 58
- Tautog 56
7 kt SL 5:43 PM · 0.4 ftH 11:48 PM · 1.4 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.