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Best score today · 11 AM · Cobia

77/100Great

Now: 392 PM EDT
Best window: 11 PM-12 AMEbb tide
Tide now: Low0.9 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: Fri · 84

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Conditions · 2 PM · now

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Time2PNOW

Score39Fair

Tide0.9 ftLow

CurrentEbb0.5 kn · toward WSW

Wind14 kn ENEgusts 26 · steady

Sea stateLight chop1.3 ft · 3 s

Air temp68°Mild

WeatherOvercast100% cloud

Water73°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Cobia 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 today

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Cobia is best here

Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder

Peak
Shoulder
Off
Not here
This week

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Spot profile

Liston Range

Depth: 35-60 ftSlope
Structure: Channel · Inner · Semi-exposedChannel · slope
Season: Shoulder seasonCobia

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 Liston Range

Liston Range is a channel in Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE, New Jersey. Depth is 35-60 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads channel, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and summer flounder. It is peak season now for scup, spot, summer flounder and sheepshead, and shoulder season for weakfish, black sea bass, Atlantic croaker and striped bass. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Summer flounder peak from June through September.

Tackle & technique

Cobia: Cobia cruise inlets, beaches, buoys, wrecks and the backs of rays in 5 to 100 feet of water. On calm, sunny days sight-cast bucktails or live eels to fish near the surface. Otherwise anchor up-current of structure, chum, and fish live eels, crabs or menhaden near the bottom.
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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