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Best score today · 7 PM · Winter flounder
- Now
- 354 AM EDT
- Best window
- 5-8 PMHigh slack
- Tide now
- Flooding6.5 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
Thursday, Oct 1 · 5 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS + Open-Meteo Marine
100Tide: EbbingWind & pressure
ECMWF
21Gusts over the limit · capped at 35Wind: 14 kt SPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
93Water temp: 59°F, warmLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Winter flounder
Species seasonality
42Off season · capped at 35Season: Off seasonHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Winter flounder 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 Winter flounder is best here
Out of season for Winter flounder · it leaves in 11 weeks
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Pitchers Cove
- Depth
- 3-7 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Off seasonWinter flounder
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 Pitchers Cove
Pitchers Cove is a bay in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 3-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are striped bass, scup and bluefish. It is peak season now for striped bass, scup, bluefish and black sea bass, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Scup peak from June through September. Bluefish peak from June through July and in September.
Tackle & technique
- Winter flounder
- Winter flounder spend late winter and spring on mud and sand bottom in harbors, coves and tidal channels, often in 5 to 30 feet. Anchor, chum with crushed clams or mussels, and fish small long-shank hooks with worm or clam on the bottom, tapping the rig to stir up mud. The bite is light, so use a sensitive rod.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Butter Point69
Cape · 1.4 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 69
- Scup 68
- Black sea bass 65
6 kt NNWH 5:46 AM · 7.6 ftL 11:39 AM · 2.3 ft
- The Narrows68
Channel · 1.6 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 68
- Striped bass 67
- Black sea bass 65
6 kt NNWH 5:46 AM · 7.6 ftL 11:39 AM · 2.3 ft
- Long Cove67
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 67
- Scup 65
- Bluefish 59
8 kt NNWH 5:46 AM · 7.6 ftL 11:39 AM · 2.3 ft
- Back River Cove67
Bay · 1.6 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 67
- Scup 65
- Bluefish 59
8 kt NNWH 5:46 AM · 7.6 ftL 11:39 AM · 2.3 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.