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Striped bassShoulder seasonChannel · Maryland
Penwood Channel
39.20°N · 76.46°W · Channel · Patapsco River including Baltimore Harbor
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Best score today · 2 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 421 PM EDT
- Best window
- 4-8 PMEbb 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 1 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
38Tide: FloodingCurrent: SlackWind & pressure
ECMWF
31Wind: 14 kt ENEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
46Water temp: 75°F, warmLight: OvercastSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
68Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Striped bass 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 Striped bass is best here
Shoulder season for Striped bass · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Penwood Channel
- Depth
- 15-30 ftSlope
- Structure
- Channel · Inner · Semi-exposedChannel · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonStriped bass
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 Penwood Channel
Penwood Channel is a channel in Patapsco River including Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. Depth is 15-30 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads channel, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and summer flounder. It is peak season now for scup, spot, summer flounder and red drum, and shoulder season for weakfish, Atlantic croaker, black sea bass and spotted seatrout. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Summer flounder peak from June through September.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
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- Old Road Bay58
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- Spanish mackerel 54
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- Sparrows Point Channel58
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- Spot 58
- Summer flounder 55
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- North Shoal56
Bar · 1.0 mi
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- Little tunny 55
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14 kt ENEH 4:35 PM · 1.2 ftL 10:24 PM · 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.