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Best score today · 6 AM · Scup
- Now
- 271 AM EST
- Best window
- 4-7 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing0.3 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + ECMWF · Waterlands engine
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Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Friday, Nov 13 · 3 PM
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Season & habitat · Scup
Species seasonality
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
Out of season for Scup · it leaves next week
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Hatch Point
- Depth
- 2-15 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · flat bottom
- Season
- Off 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 Hatch Point
Hatch Point is a cape in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth in the nearest water is 2-15 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are striped bass, little tunny and tautog. It is peak season now for tautog, and shoulder season for striped bass, little tunny, Atlantic cod and haddock. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Little tunny peak from September through October. Tautog peak in May and from October through November.
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
- Shipyard Point66
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 66
- Tautog 52
- Little tunny 48
6 kt WSWH 7:19 AM · 5.0 ftL 1:44 PM · 0.7 ft
- Southard Point64
Cape · 1.1 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 64
- Little tunny 53
- Tautog 48
6 kt WSWH 7:19 AM · 5.0 ftL 1:44 PM · 0.7 ft
- Wade Cove61
Bay · 0.5 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 61
- Tautog 53
- Little tunny 50
6 kt WSWH 7:19 AM · 5.0 ftL 1:44 PM · 0.7 ft
- Clay Cove61
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassShoulder season- Striped bass 61
- Tautog 53
- Little tunny 50
6 kt WSWH 7:19 AM · 5.0 ftL 1:44 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 Maine DMR before you keep a fish.