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Best score today · 5 PM · Scup
- Now
- 745 AM EDT
- Best window
- 4-10 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding5.3 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 · 9 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.9 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
59Wind: 14 kt ENEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
76Water temp: 58°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
75Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Scup 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 Scup is best here
Peak season for Scup · 1 more week at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
The Breakers
- Depth
- 30-100 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Bar · Outer · ExposedBar · drop-off
- Season
- Peak seasonScup
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 The Breakers
The Breakers is a bar in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Depth is 30-100 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads bar, outer water and exposed.
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
- 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.
- Atlantic cod
- Cod hold near coarse, rocky bottom on ledges, banks and wrecks, commonly from 80 to 300 feet in the Gulf of Maine. Drift over the structure with a diamond or cod jig and a teaser fly above it, keeping the jig within a few feet of bottom, or fish clams on a high-low rig. Check the stock area and season before keeping one, because most of the year cod must be released.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Colt Ledge75
Bar · 0.6 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 75
- Black sea bass 73
- Striped bass 73
10 kt NNEH 7:37 AM · 7.7 ftL 1:39 PM · 2.1 ft
- Big Shoal74
Bar · 0.6 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 74
- Striped bass 73
- Atlantic cod 72
10 kt NNEH 7:37 AM · 7.7 ftL 1:39 PM · 2.1 ft
- Heron Neck Ledge74
Bar · 0.8 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 74
- Black sea bass 73
- Striped bass 73
10 kt NNEH 7:37 AM · 7.7 ftL 1:39 PM · 2.1 ft
- Arey Ledges73
Bar · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 73
- Black sea bass 72
- Atlantic cod 71
10 kt NNEH 7:37 AM · 7.7 ftL 1:39 PM · 2.1 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.