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Best score today · 8 AM · Weakfish
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- 5011 AM EST
- Best window
- 7-11 PMFlood 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
Thursday, Nov 5 · 4 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
85Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.4 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
75Wind: 11 kt SPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
82Water temp: 62°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 1.3 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
72Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Weakfish 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 Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 3 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Wells Cove
- Depth
- 35-45 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonWeakfish
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 Wells Cove
Wells Cove is a bay in Eastern Bay, Maryland. Depth is 35-45 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, tautog and spot. It is peak season now for tautog, striped bass, black sea bass and bluefish, and shoulder season for scup, spot, weakfish and little tunny. Scup peak from June through October. Tautog peak in April and from October through December. Spot peak from August through October.
Tackle & technique
- Weakfish
- Weakfish hold along channel edges, grass beds, oyster bars and bridge shadows in bays and sounds, usually in 5 to 40 feet of water, and feed hardest at dawn, dusk and after dark. Swim soft plastics or bucktails slowly near the bottom, or drift peeler crab and bloodworms. They have soft mouths, so keep the drag light and the pressure steady.
- 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.
- 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
- Crab Alley Bay74
Bay · 3.3 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 74
- Spotted seatrout 73
- Scup 70
7 kt SH 12:06 PM · 1.4 ftL 6:48 PM · 0.4 ft
- Parsons Point69
Cape · 2.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 69
- Tautog 69
- Black sea bass 67
7 kt SH 12:06 PM · 1.4 ftL 6:48 PM · 0.4 ft
- Seth Point65
Cape · 2.1 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 65
- Striped bass 59
- Tautog 57
7 kt SH 11:10 AM · 1.2 ftL 5:43 PM · 0.4 ft
- Wades Point63
Cape · 3.3 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 63
- Striped bass 58
- Tautog 56
7 kt SH 11:10 AM · 1.2 ftL 5:43 PM · 0.4 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.