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Best score today · 3 PM · Striped bass
- Now
- 766 PM EST
- Best window
- 7-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing2.6 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 15 · 5 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.6 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
46Wind: 13 kt EPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
98Water temp: 60°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
95Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Striped bass 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 Striped bass is best here
Peak season for Striped bass · 7 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Horseneck Point
- Depth
- 2-7 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · flat bottom
- Season
- Peak seasonStriped bass
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 Horseneck Point
Horseneck Point is a cape in New York Harbor. Depth is 2-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are striped bass, scup and tautog. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, black sea bass and bluefish, and shoulder season for scup, little tunny, weakfish and spot. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Scup peak from June through October. Tautog peak in April and from October through December.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Gooseneck Point76
Cape · 0.8 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 76
- Scup 64
- Tautog 63
8 kt SSWL 12:10 AM · 0.1 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.7 ft
- Blackberry Bay73
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 73
- Scup 70
- Tautog 68
8 kt SSWL 12:10 AM · 0.1 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.7 ft
- Pleasure Bay73
Bay · 1.4 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 73
- Scup 70
- Tautog 68
8 kt SSWL 12:10 AM · 0.2 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.8 ft
- Manahassett Creek70
Bay · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 70
- Striped bass 69
- Spotted seatrout 66
8 kt SSWL 12:10 AM · 0.2 ftH 5:46 AM · 2.8 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.