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Best score today · 7 AM · Weakfish
- Now
- 583 AM EST
- Best window
- 4-9 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing4.7 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 15 · 9 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
85Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.5 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
94Wind: 4 kt EPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
72Water temp: 59°F, coolLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
62Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
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 NYSDEC before you keep a fish.
Source: NYSDEC · synced yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 3 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Lower Bay
- Depth
- 25-35 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 Lower Bay
Lower Bay is a bay in New York Harbor. Depth is 25-35 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and tautog. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, bluefish and spotted seatrout, 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
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Chapel Hill North Channel69
Channel · 0.7 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 69
- Scup 68
- Spotted seatrout 68
3 kt WSWL 8:31 AM · 0.8 ftH 2:41 PM · 5.0 ft
- Fourteen Foot Channel66
Bar · 1.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 66
- Scup 65
- Spotted seatrout 63
3 kt WSWL 8:31 AM · 0.8 ftH 2:41 PM · 5.0 ft
- Chapel Hill South Channel65
Channel · 1.4 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 65
- Striped bass 65
- Spotted seatrout 64
3 kt WSWL 8:48 AM · 0.8 ftH 2:45 PM · 5.0 ft
- Craven Shoal63
Bar · 2.2 mi
Top: BluefishPeak season- Bluefish 63
- Scup 62
- Striped bass 62
3 kt WSWL 8:49 AM · 0.7 ftH 2:50 PM · 5.0 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.