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Best score today · 7 PM · Striped bass
- Now
- 5412 AM EDT
- Best window
- 5-8 PMHigh slack
- Tide now
- Low1.5 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
Tuesday, Sep 29 · 3 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
98Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.8 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
64Wind: 7 kt NWPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
66Water temp: 59°F, primeLight: Partly cloudySolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
75Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Striped bass 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 Striped bass is best here
Peak season for Striped bass · 5 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Saddleback Ledge
- Depth
- 40-110 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Ledge · Outer · ExposedLedge · drop-off
- Season
- Peak seasonStriped bass
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 Saddleback Ledge
Saddleback Ledge is a bar in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 40-110 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads ledge, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, black sea bass and bluefish. It is peak season now for scup, black sea bass, bluefish and Atlantic cod, and shoulder season for tautog and summer flounder. Scup peak from June through September. Black sea bass peak from June through July and in September. Bluefish peak from June through July and in September.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
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- Blacksnake Ledge60
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- Bold Dick59
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- Bluefish 57
- Atlantic cod 56
6 kt NNWH 5:58 AM · 7.4 ftL 11:45 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.