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Best score today · 3 PM · Striped bass
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- 725 PM EST
- Best window
- 7-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High2.7 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
Sunday, Nov 8 · 11 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.8 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
64Wind: 7 kt WPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
83Water temp: 61°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Major periodSeas: 3.1 ftSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
88Season: PeakHabitat: Structure unmappedDepth: 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 NYSDEC before you keep a fish.
Source: NYSDEC · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Scup is best here
Shoulder season for Scup · 2 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Blackberry Bay
- Depth
- 3-7 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder 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 Blackberry Bay
Blackberry Bay is a bay in New York Harbor. Depth is 3-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and tautog. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, spotted seatrout and black sea bass, and shoulder season for scup, spot, weakfish and little tunny. Scup peak from June through October. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Tautog peak in April and from October through December.
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.
- Tautog
- Tautog live in rocks, wrecks, bridge pilings and jetties and rarely stray from cover, usually in 10 to 60 feet inshore and deeper in late fall. Anchor so the bait sits in the structure, fish crab on a short rig or a tog jig, and set hard on the second tap before the fish pulls into the rocks. Clams and worms work better in cold spring water; hard crabs are the standard in fall.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Pleasure Bay72
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 72
- Striped bass 68
- Tautog 64
8 kt SL 12:10 AM · 0.2 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.8 ft
- Manahassett Creek72
Bay · 0.8 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 72
- Striped bass 63
- Spot 62
8 kt SL 12:10 AM · 0.2 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.8 ft
- Gooseneck Point70
Cape · 0.2 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 70
- Scup 67
- Tautog 60
8 kt SL 12:10 AM · 0.1 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.7 ft
- Horseneck Point70
Cape · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 70
- Scup 67
- Tautog 60
8 kt SL 12:10 AM · 0.1 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.7 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 NYSDEC before you keep a fish.