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Best score today · 8 AM · Weakfish
- Now
- 502 PM EDT
- Best window
- 3-8 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding1.1 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
Saturday, Oct 3 · 11 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
95Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.7 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 6 kt SWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
74Water temp: 69°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
78Season: PeakHabitat: 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 today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Cox Creek
- Depth
- Up to 7 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Estuary · Inner · Semi-exposedEstuary · 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 Cox Creek
Cox Creek is a bay in Patapsco River including Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. Depth in the nearest water is up to 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 spot, scup and red drum. It is peak season now for spot, scup, red drum and summer flounder, and shoulder season for Atlantic croaker, cobia, spotted seatrout and weakfish. Spot peak from August through October. Scup peak from June through October. Red drum peak in May and from September 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Brewerton Angle69
Bend · 2.0 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 69
- Scup 65
- Sheepshead 63
6 kt NEH 3:25 PM · 1.3 ftL 9:14 PM · 0.7 ft
- Goose Neck63
Cape · 0.4 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 63
- Little tunny 60
- Scup 60
6 kt NEH 3:28 PM · 1.2 ftL 9:03 PM · 0.7 ft
- Stony Point63
Cape · 0.7 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 63
- Scup 60
- Little tunny 59
6 kt NEH 3:28 PM · 1.2 ftL 9:03 PM · 0.7 ft
- Hawkins Point63
Cape · 2.4 mi
Top: SpotPeak season- Spot 63
- Little tunny 61
- Scup 60
6 kt NEH 3:25 PM · 1.3 ftL 9:14 PM · 0.7 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.