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CobiaShoulder season

Cape · New York

Eagle Point

41.14°N · 72.28°W · Cape · Peconic and Gardiners Bays

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Best score today · 6 AM · Cobia

77/100Great
Now
496 PM EDT
Best window
10 PM-12 AMEbb tide
Tide now
Flooding2.2 ft ▲

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24-hour conditions · rolling from now

Conditions · 6 PM · now

Time6PNOW
Score49Good
Tide2.2 ft ▲Flooding
CurrentFlood0.7 kn · toward WSW
Wind9 kn NEgusts 22 · steady
Sea stateModerate3.0 ft · 4 s
Air temp60°Mild
WeatherOvercast100% cloud
Water69°FObserved

Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Cobia is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with NYSDEC before you keep a fish.

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Cobia is best here

Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder

Cobia season by week of the year. Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder.
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Cobia in New York

Spot profile

Eagle Point

Depth
3-6 ftNearest water
Structure
Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · flat bottom
Season
Shoulder seasonCobia

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 Eagle Point

Eagle Point is a cape in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth in the nearest water is 3-6 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are little tunny, striped bass and scup. It is peak season now for little tunny, scup, sheepshead and spot, and shoulder season for striped bass, bluefish, black sea bass and weakfish. Little tunny peak from September through October. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Scup peak from June through October.

Tackle & technique

Cobia
Cobia cruise inlets, beaches, buoys, wrecks and the backs of rays in 5 to 100 feet of water. On calm, sunny days sight-cast bucktails or live eels to fish near the surface. Otherwise anchor up-current of structure, chum, and fish live eels, crabs or menhaden near the bottom.
Little tunny
Little tunny travel fast in schools that pin bait against inlets, points, jetties and tide rips, usually within a few miles of shore and often in less than 60 feet. Stay off the school's path, wait for it to surface within range, and cast small metal or epoxy jigs with a fast retrieve. When fish stay down, troll small feathers along bait edges and color changes to find them.
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

  • Browns Point

    Cape · 0.6 mi

    75
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 75
    • Striped bass 69
    • Bluefish 67

    9 kt NEH 8:11 PM · 2.8 ftL 2:31 AM · 0.5 ft

  • Eagles Neck Point

    Cape · 0.9 mi

    74
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 74
    • Striped bass 68
    • Scup 66

    9 kt NEH 8:11 PM · 2.8 ftL 2:31 AM · 0.5 ft

  • Long Beach Bay

    Bay · 0.4 mi

    71
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 71
    • Scup 71
    • Spot 69

    9 kt NEH 8:11 PM · 2.8 ftL 2:31 AM · 0.5 ft

  • Little Bay

    Bay · 1.2 mi

    71
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 71
    • Scup 71
    • Spot 69

    9 kt NEH 8:11 PM · 2.8 ftL 2:31 AM · 0.5 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.