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Best score today · 6 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 608 AM EDT
- Best window
- 5-8 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding1.7 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 8 AM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
44Tide: FloodingCurrent: SlackWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 5 kt NPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
85Water temp: 75°F, warmLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 0.9 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
65Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
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 today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 1 more week 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 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and red drum. It is peak season now for scup, spot, red drum and Spanish mackerel, and shoulder season for weakfish, Atlantic croaker, spotted seatrout and bluefish. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Red drum peak in May and 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Chapel Hill North Channel75
Channel · 0.7 mi
Top: Red drumPeak season- Red drum 75
- Summer flounder 75
- Scup 73
5 kt NH 1:47 PM · 4.7 ftL 8:05 PM · 1.5 ft
- Fourteen Foot Channel73
Bar · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 73
- Spot 73
- Red drum 72
5 kt NH 1:47 PM · 4.7 ftL 8:05 PM · 1.5 ft
- Chapel Hill South Channel69
Channel · 1.4 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 69
- Spot 69
- Red drum 68
5 kt NH 1:51 PM · 4.7 ftL 8:22 PM · 1.5 ft
- Craven Shoal68
Bar · 2.2 mi
Top: Spanish mackerelPeak season- Spanish mackerel 68
- Scup 66
- Summer flounder 65
5 kt NH 1:45 PM · 4.9 ftL 8:30 PM · 1.3 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.