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Best score today · 12 AM · Haddock
- Now
- 667 PM EDT
- Best window
- 7-9 PMHigh slack
- Tide now
- Flooding8.1 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
Saturday, Sep 26 · 7 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.2 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
99Wind: 9 kt NNEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
25Water temp: 59°F, hotLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 7.5 ftSeason & habitat · Haddock
Species seasonality
84Season: PeakHabitat: 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 today
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
Townsend Gut
- Depth
- 7-70 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Channel · Inner · ProtectedChannel · drop-off
- 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 Townsend Gut
Townsend Gut is a gut in Casco Bay, Maine. Depth is 7-70 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads channel, inner water and protected.
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 black sea bass, 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
- 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.
- 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
- Moffat Cove77
Bay · 0.4 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 77
- Striped bass 71
- Little tunny 65
4 kt NNWH 8:05 PM · 8.5 ftL 2:36 AM · 1.3 ft
- Hogdon Cove77
Bay · 0.5 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 77
- Striped bass 71
- Little tunny 65
4 kt NNWH 8:05 PM · 8.5 ftL 2:36 AM · 1.3 ft
- Cameron Cove77
Bay · 0.6 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 77
- Striped bass 71
- Little tunny 65
4 kt NNWH 8:05 PM · 8.5 ftL 2:36 AM · 1.3 ft
- Oak Point74
Cape · 0.3 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 74
- Scup 72
- Little tunny 68
4 kt NNWH 8:05 PM · 8.5 ftL 2:36 AM · 1.3 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.