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Best score today · 7 AM · Haddock
- Now
- 563 PM EDT
- Best window
- 3-10 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding7.5 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Wednesday, Sep 30 · 9 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.2 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
94Wind: 4 kt NPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
Open-Meteo Marine
34Water temp: 58°F, hotLight: MorningSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Haddock
Species seasonality
51Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: 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
Cubby Hole
- Depth
- 2-4 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · flat bottom
- 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 Cubby Hole
Cubby Hole is a bay in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Depth is 2-4 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and black sea bass. It is peak season now for scup, striped bass, black sea bass and bluefish, 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. Black sea bass peak from June through July and in September.
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
- Kent Ledge71
Bar · 0.9 mi
Top: Black sea bassPeak season- Black sea bass 71
- Scup 71
- Atlantic cod 69
11 kt NWH 4:59 PM · 9.1 ftL 11:28 PM · 1.5 ft
- Fox Islands Thorofare70
Channel · 1.0 mi
Top: Black sea bassPeak season- Black sea bass 70
- Scup 70
- Atlantic cod 69
11 kt NWH 4:59 PM · 9.1 ftL 11:28 PM · 1.5 ft
- Armstrong Cove68
Bay · 0.6 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 68
- Scup 67
- Black sea bass 63
11 kt NWH 4:59 PM · 9.1 ftL 11:28 PM · 1.5 ft
- Waterman Cove66
Bay · 0.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 66
- Scup 64
- Black sea bass 61
11 kt NWH 4:59 PM · 9.1 ftL 11:28 PM · 1.5 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.