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Best score today · 12 AM · Scup
- Now
- 747 PM EDT
- Best window
- 7-9 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding3.2 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, Oct 1 · 2 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
94Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.1 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
98Wind: 5 kt NNEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
52Water temp: 58°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
83Season: 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 Maine DMR before you keep a fish.
Source: Maine DMR · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Scup is best here
Peak season for Scup · 1 more week at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Chops Point
- Depth
- 6-50 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · drop-off
- Season
- Peak 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 Chops Point
Chops Point is a cape in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth in the nearest water is 6-50 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are striped bass, little tunny and scup. It is peak season now for striped bass, little tunny, scup and bluefish, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Little tunny peak from September through October. Scup peak from June through September.
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.
- Little tunny
- Little tunny travel fast in schools that pin bait against inlets, points, jetties and tide rips, usually within a few miles of shore and often in less than 60 feet. Stay off the school's path, wait for it to surface within range, and cast small metal or epoxy jigs with a fast retrieve. When fish stay down, troll small feathers along bait edges and color changes to find them.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- The Chops Passage79
Channel · 0.1 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 79
- Scup 74
- Black sea bass 72
4 kt NNWH 10:04 PM · 5.1 ftL 4:39 AM · 0.8 ft
- Trotts Rock75
Bar · 0.5 mi
Top: BluefishPeak season- Bluefish 75
- Scup 75
- Striped bass 74
4 kt NNWH 10:04 PM · 5.1 ftL 4:39 AM · 0.8 ft
- Grace Rock75
Bar · 0.8 mi
Top: BluefishPeak season- Bluefish 75
- Scup 75
- Striped bass 74
4 kt NNWH 10:04 PM · 5.1 ftL 4:39 AM · 0.8 ft
- Goose Cove74
Bay · 0.5 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 74
- Striped bass 74
- Bluefish 73
4 kt NNWH 10:04 PM · 5.1 ftL 4:39 AM · 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 Maine DMR before you keep a fish.