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Atlantic bluefin tunaPeak season

Bar · Maine

Turnip Yard

44.05°N · 68.59°W · Bar · Intra Coastal Waters from Schoodic Point, ME to Stonington, ME

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Best score today · 11 PM · Atlantic bluefin tuna

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Now
573 AM EDT
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11 PM-12 AMEbb tide
Tide now
Flooding1.1 ft ▲

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: today · 85

24-hour conditions · rolling from now

Conditions · 3 AM · now

Time3ANOW
Score57Good
Tide1.1 ft ▲Flooding
CurrentSlack0.0 kn
Wind11 kn NEgusts 14 · steady
Sea stateLight chop1.6 ft · 5 s
Air temp54°Cool
WeatherClear0% cloud
Water58°FObserved

Current regulations

What you can keep here today

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No rule for Atlantic bluefin tuna is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with Maine DMR before you keep a fish.

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Source: Maine DMR · synced yesterday

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When Atlantic bluefin tuna is best here

Peak season for Atlantic bluefin tuna · 5 more weeks at peak

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Spot profile

Turnip Yard

Depth
25-70 ftDrop-off
Structure
Bar · Outer · ExposedBar · drop-off
Season
Peak seasonAtlantic bluefin tuna

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 Turnip Yard

Turnip Yard is a bar in Intra Coastal Waters from Schoodic Point, ME to Stonington, ME, Maine. Depth is 25-70 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads bar, outer water and exposed.

Waterlands scores 13 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and Atlantic bluefin tuna. It is peak season now for scup, striped bass, Atlantic bluefin tuna and Atlantic cod, and shoulder season for tautog, summer flounder and mahi-mahi. Scup peak from June through September. Striped bass peak from May through June and from September through October. Atlantic bluefin tuna peak from July through October.

Tackle & technique

Atlantic bluefin tuna
Bluefin tuna follow schools of herring, mackerel, sand eels and menhaden over banks, ledges and shoals, mostly in the top 150 feet. Troll spreader bars and daisy chains to find fish, then switch to live bait, chunks or stick baits once a school is located. Heavy tackle and a NOAA HMS permit are required, and size-class limits change through the season.
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

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  • Turnip Yard

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    60
    Top: ScupPeak season
    • Scup 60
    • Striped bass 59
    • Atlantic bluefin tuna 57

    11 kt NEH 9:05 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:42 PM · 1.3 ft

  • Halfway Rock

    Bar · 0.6 mi

    60
    Top: ScupPeak season
    • Scup 60
    • Striped bass 59
    • Atlantic bluefin tuna 57

    11 kt NEH 9:05 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:42 PM · 1.3 ft

  • Horseman Ledge

    Bar · 0.8 mi

    60
    Top: ScupPeak season
    • Scup 60
    • Striped bass 59
    • Atlantic bluefin tuna 57

    11 kt NEH 9:05 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:42 PM · 1.3 ft

  • Seal Ledges

    Bar · 1.1 mi

    60
    Top: ScupPeak season
    • Scup 60
    • Striped bass 59
    • Atlantic bluefin tuna 57

    11 kt NEH 9:05 AM · 8.4 ftL 2:42 PM · 1.3 ft

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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.