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Best score today · 8 AM · Weakfish

77/100Great

Now: 498 AM EDT
Best window: 8 AM-12 PMEbb tide
Tide now: Ebbing5.4 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: Thu · 83

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Conditions · 8 AM · now

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Time8ANOW

Score49Good

Tide5.4 ft ▼Ebbing

CurrentFlood0.7 kn · toward N

Wind13 kn NNEgusts 23 · steady

Sea stateModerate2.0 ft · 3 s

Air temp57°Mild

WeatherOvercast55% chance of rain

Water73°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Weakfish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with NJFW before you keep a fish.

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Source: NJFW · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Weakfish is best here

Shoulder season for Weakfish · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Cross Ledge

Depth: 15-20 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Ledge · Inner · Semi-exposedLedge · 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 Cross Ledge

Cross Ledge is a bar in Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE, New Jersey. Depth is 15-20 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads ledge, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and little tunny. It is peak season now for scup, spot, little tunny and Spanish mackerel, and shoulder season for bluefish, black sea bass, king mackerel and Atlantic croaker. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Little tunny peak from September through October.

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.
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.
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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Elbow of Cross Ledge
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77
Top: ScupPeak season
- Scup 77
- Spot 67
- Little tunny 66
13 kt NNEL 1:34 PM · 0.7 ftH 7:54 PM · 6.1 ft
Brandywine Range
Channel · 0.9 mi
73
Top: ScupPeak season
- Scup 73
- Spot 73
- Atlantic croaker 63
13 kt NNEL 1:34 PM · 0.7 ftH 7:54 PM · 6.1 ft
Cross Ledge Range
Channel · 3.3 mi
73
Top: ScupPeak season
- Scup 73
- Spot 70
- Atlantic croaker 63
13 kt NNEL 1:46 PM · 0.8 ftH 8:02 PM · 6.6 ft
Main Maull Range
Channel · 3.4 mi
71
Top: ScupPeak season
- Scup 71
- Spot 70
- Atlantic croaker 60
13 kt NNEL 1:34 PM · 0.7 ftH 7:54 PM · 6.1 ft