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Best score today · 4 PM · Tautog
- Now
- 542 AM EDT
- Best window
- 4-7 PMDusk
- Tide now
- Flooding2.1 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 · 6 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
99Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.0 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
98Wind: 4 kt WNWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
88Water temp: 59°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Tautog
Species seasonality
62Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Tautog 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 Tautog is best here
Shoulder season for Tautog · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Little River Ledges
- Depth
- 5-40 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bar · Outer · ExposedBar · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonTautog
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 Little River Ledges
Little River Ledges is a bar in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 5-40 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bar, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and Atlantic cod. It is peak season now for scup, striped bass, Atlantic cod and bluefish, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Scup peak from June through September. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Atlantic cod peak from May through June and from September through October.
Tackle & technique
- Tautog
- Tautog live in rocks, wrecks, bridge pilings and jetties and rarely stray from cover, usually in 10 to 60 feet inshore and deeper in late fall. Anchor so the bait sits in the structure, fish crab on a short rig or a tog jig, and set hard on the second tap before the fish pulls into the rocks. Clams and worms work better in cold spring water; hard crabs are the standard in fall.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Sloop Ledge72
Bar · 0.4 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 72
- Black sea bass 68
- Atlantic cod 67
4 kt SSWH 6:59 AM · 7.0 ftL 12:48 PM · 2.2 ft
- The Black Rocks72
Bar · 1.0 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 72
- Black sea bass 68
- Atlantic cod 67
4 kt SSWH 6:59 AM · 7.0 ftL 12:48 PM · 2.2 ft
- Todds Point70
Cape · 0.3 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 70
- Scup 63
- Black sea bass 60
4 kt SSWH 6:59 AM · 7.0 ftL 12:48 PM · 2.2 ft
- Sagadahoc Bay68
Bay · 1.4 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 68
- Striped bass 67
- Black sea bass 59
4 kt SSWH 6:59 AM · 7.0 ftL 12:48 PM · 2.2 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.