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Best score today · 5 PM · Scup
- Now
- 635 AM EDT
- Best window
- 4 PM-12 AMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding3.6 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 · 7 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
76Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.8 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
79Wind: 11 kt SPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
93Water temp: 58°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
84Season: ShoulderHabitat: Prime 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 yesterday
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
East Cod Ledge
- Depth
- 60-110 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Ledge · Outer · ExposedLedge · 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 East Cod Ledge
East Cod Ledge is a bar in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 60-110 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads ledge, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are striped bass, Atlantic cod and black sea bass. It is peak season now for striped bass, Atlantic cod, black sea bass and scup, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Atlantic cod peak from May through June and from September through October. Black sea bass peak from June through July and in 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.
- Atlantic cod
- Cod hold near coarse, rocky bottom on ledges, banks and wrecks, commonly from 80 to 300 feet in the Gulf of Maine. Drift over the structure with a diamond or cod jig and a teaser fly above it, keeping the jig within a few feet of bottom, or fish clams on a high-low rig. Check the stock area and season before keeping one, because most of the year cod must be released.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Casco Bay70
Bay · 2.0 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 70
- Black sea bass 69
- Haddock 67
7 kt NNEH 8:45 AM · 8.0 ftL 2:39 PM · 1.9 ft
- Round Shoal66
Bar · 0.3 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 66
- Atlantic cod 65
- Black sea bass 64
15 kt NNEH 8:45 AM · 8.0 ftL 2:39 PM · 1.9 ft
- East Cod Ledge Rock63
Bar · 1.0 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 63
- Black sea bass 63
- Scup 61
15 kt NNEH 8:45 AM · 8.0 ftL 2:39 PM · 1.9 ft
- Bulwark Shoal63
Bar · 1.8 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 63
- Black sea bass 62
- Scup 61
15 kt NNEH 8:52 AM · 7.8 ftL 2:42 PM · 1.9 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.