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Best score today · 12 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 674 PM EDT
- Best window
- 5 PM-12 AMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding2.5 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
Sunday, Sep 27 · 2 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.0 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
60Wind: 13 kt NEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
65Water temp: 59°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Near a majorSeas: 4.8 ftSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
88Season: PeakHabitat: Structure unmappedDepth: 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
Meadow Cove
- Depth
- 15-50 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · slope
- 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 Meadow Cove
Meadow Cove is a bay in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 15-50 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and tautog. It is peak season now for scup, striped bass, black sea bass and Atlantic cod, 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. 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Gall Rock71
Bar · 0.3 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 71
- Atlantic cod 67
- Black sea bass 67
2 kt ENEH 8:54 PM · 8.8 ftL 3:22 AM · 1.0 ft
- Kelp Ledge71
Bar · 0.8 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 71
- Atlantic cod 67
- Black sea bass 67
2 kt ENEH 8:54 PM · 8.8 ftL 3:22 AM · 1.0 ft
- Cavis Point70
Cape · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 70
- Atlantic cod 67
- Black sea bass 66
2 kt ENEH 8:54 PM · 8.8 ftL 3:22 AM · 1.0 ft
- Jones Point70
Cape · 0.9 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 70
- Atlantic cod 67
- Black sea bass 66
2 kt ENEH 8:54 PM · 8.8 ftL 3:22 AM · 1.0 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.