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- Best of all
- Atlantic croaker77
- Spot76
- Red drum68
- Atlantic tarpon65
- Florida pompano64
- Gray snapper63
- Spotted seatrout62
- Crevalle jack60
- Southern flounder60
- Summer flounder57
- King mackerel56
- Black drum52
- Spanish mackerel51
- Weakfish51
- Cobia48
- Red snapper45
- Little tunny44
- Sheepshead44
- Gray triggerfish43
- Black sea bass42
- Gag grouper41
- Greater amberjack41
- Red grouper41
- Bluefish35
Best score today · 5 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 5110 PM EDT
- Best window
- 10 PM-12 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High0.3 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 10 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS + Open-Meteo Marine
44Tide: High slackCurrent: 0.9 knWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 4 kt SSEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
56Water temp: 81°F, warmLight: NightSolunar: Near a majorSeas: 1.4 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
67Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Weakfish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with NCDMF before you keep a fish.
Source: NCDMF · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
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- This week
Spot profile
Back Bay
- Depth
- 2-7 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonWeakfish
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 Back Bay
Back Bay is a bay in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. Depth is 2-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 24 species here; the best right now are Atlantic croaker, spot and red drum. It is peak season now for Atlantic croaker, spot, red drum and Atlantic tarpon, and shoulder season for Florida pompano, black drum, Spanish mackerel and weakfish. Atlantic croaker peak from August through October. Spot peak from September through October. Red drum peak from August through November.
Tackle & technique
- Weakfish
- Weakfish hold along channel edges, grass beds, oyster bars and bridge shadows in bays and sounds, usually in 5 to 40 feet of water, and feed hardest at dawn, dusk and after dark. Swim soft plastics or bucktails slowly near the bottom, or drift peeler crab and bloodworms. They have soft mouths, so keep the drag light and the pressure steady.
- Atlantic croaker
- Croaker feed on mud and sand bottom along channel edges, oyster bars, piers and deeper holes in bays and sounds, mostly in 5 to 30 feet of water. A two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and shrimp, bloodworm or squid catches them from piers, the surf and small boats. Fish the hours around high tide and into the evening.
- Spot
- Spot school over mud and sand in bays, tidal creeks and channels and around piers and bridges, generally in less than 25 feet of water. Fish a two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and bits of bloodworm or shrimp, and move until you find a school. In fall the biggest fish run out of the sounds past piers and inlets, and the bite can go all day.
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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 NCDMF before you keep a fish.