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Best score today · 7 AM · Weakfish
- Now
- 572 AM EST
- Best window
- 6-8 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding4.9 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Wednesday, Nov 11 · 12 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
81Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.3 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
65Wind: 8 kt WPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
82Water temp: 59°F, coolLight: NightSolunar: Near a majorSeas: 1.1 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
51Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: 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
Round Shoal
- Depth
- 10-15 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Shoal · Inner · Semi-exposedShoal · 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 Round Shoal
Round Shoal is a bar in New York Harbor. Depth is 10-15 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads shoal, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, bluefish and spotted seatrout. It is peak season now for bluefish, spotted seatrout, striped bass and tautog, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, spot and little tunny. Scup peak from June through October. Bluefish peak in May and from October through November. Spotted seatrout peak from October through November.
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.
- Bluefish
- Bluefish travel in size-sorted schools and feed where tide pushes bait past structure: inlet mouths, rips, shoal edges and the surf line, mostly in water shallower than 60 feet. Look for birds and breaking bait and cast metal or poppers into it, or soak cut bunker or mullet on the bottom from the beach. Use a short wire or heavy leader because their teeth cut light line.
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- Spotted seatrout 67
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- Spotted seatrout 60
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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.