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Best score today · 6 PM · Haddock
- Now
- 6712 AM EDT
- Best window
- 5-9 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing3.7 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 · 5 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.8 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
90Wind: 2 kt NEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
68Water temp: 58°F, hotLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Haddock
Species seasonality
78Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: Out of range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Haddock 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 Haddock is best here
Peak season for Haddock · 1 more week at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Jordan Reef
- Depth
- 45-70 ftSlope
- Structure
- Reef · Outer · ExposedReef · slope
- Season
- Peak seasonHaddock
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 Jordan Reef
Jordan Reef is a bar in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 45-70 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads reef, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are black sea bass, striped bass and bluefish. It is peak season now for black sea bass, striped bass, bluefish and Atlantic cod, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Black sea bass peak from June through July and in September. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Bluefish peak from June through July and in September.
Tackle & technique
- Haddock
- Haddock feed on gravel, sand and clay bottom along the edges of banks and ledges, mostly in 120 to 400 feet. They have small, soft mouths, so fish clam or squid on small hooks on a high-low rig, or a light jig with teasers, right on the bottom. Set the hook gently and keep steady pressure on the way up.
- Black sea bass
- Black sea bass hold tight to wrecks, reefs, rock piles and jetties, from 15 feet inshore in late spring to well over 100 feet on offshore wrecks in late fall. Anchor or drift right over the structure and fish a two-hook high-low rig with squid or clam, or bounce a small jig on the bottom. The biggest males sit on the highest relief.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Pine Tree Ledge72
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Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 72
- Black sea bass 72
- Striped bass 72
7 kt NL 2:34 AM · 1.3 ftH 8:45 AM · 7.7 ft
- Witch Rock72
Bar · 0.7 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 72
- Black sea bass 72
- Striped bass 72
7 kt NL 2:34 AM · 1.3 ftH 8:45 AM · 7.7 ft
- Willard Rock72
Bar · 1.1 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 72
- Black sea bass 72
- Striped bass 72
7 kt NL 2:34 AM · 1.3 ftH 8:45 AM · 7.7 ft
- Chimney Rock72
Bar · 1.2 mi
Top: Atlantic codPeak season- Atlantic cod 72
- Black sea bass 72
- Striped bass 72
7 kt NL 2:34 AM · 1.3 ftH 8:45 AM · 7.7 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.