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Best score today · 6 AM · Spot
- Now
- 615 PM EST
- Best window
- 5-10 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
Thursday, Nov 12 · 2 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.4 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
88Wind: 10 kt WNWPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
58Water temp: 58°F, coolLight: Late afternoonSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Spot
Species seasonality
41Off season · capped at 35Season: Off seasonHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Spot 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 Spot is best here
Last week of shoulder season for Spot · the off season next
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Gardiners Bay
- Depth
- 15-20 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonSpot
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 Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 15-20 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are striped bass, scup and tautog. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, spotted seatrout and black sea bass, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, spot and red drum. 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
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Cherry Hill Point79
Cape · 1.0 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 79
- Black sea bass 66
- Bluefish 66
10 kt SWL 10:28 PM · 0.2 ftH 4:49 AM · 2.5 ft
- Bostwick Bay76
Bay · 2.3 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 76
- Scup 71
- Tautog 69
10 kt SWL 10:37 PM · 0.3 ftH 4:46 AM · 2.7 ft
- Cherry Harbor75
Bay · 2.0 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 75
- Black sea bass 69
- Scup 69
13 kt SWL 10:28 PM · 0.2 ftH 4:49 AM · 2.5 ft
- Crow Shoal72
Bar · 0.8 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 72
- Bluefish 67
- Black sea bass 66
10 kt SWL 10:28 PM · 0.2 ftH 4:49 AM · 2.5 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.