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Best score today · 3 AM · Little tunny
- Now
- 668 PM EDT
- Best window
- 8 PM-12 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing2.0 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
Friday, Oct 2 · 6 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.6 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 6 kt ENEPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
99Water temp: 66°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Little tunny
Species seasonality
98Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Little tunny 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 Little tunny is best here
Peak season for Little tunny · 5 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Goff Point
- Depth
- 3-10 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · slope
- Season
- Peak seasonLittle tunny
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 Goff Point
Goff Point is a cape in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth in the nearest water is 3-10 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.
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, spot and sheepshead, 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
- 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.
- 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
- Lazy Point66
Cape · 0.6 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 66
- Striped bass 59
- Scup 58
17 kt NEL 12:47 AM · 0.6 ftH 6:44 AM · 1.9 ft
- Cherry Harbor66
Bay · 5.8 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 66
- Spot 66
- Sheepshead 57
17 kt NEL 1:24 AM · 0.7 ftH 7:48 AM · 2.4 ft
- Napeague Harbor63
Bay · 0.9 mi
Top: ScupPeak season- Scup 63
- Little tunny 62
- Sheepshead 62
17 kt NEL 12:47 AM · 0.6 ftH 6:44 AM · 1.9 ft
- Cherry Point62
Cape · 1.6 mi
Top: Little tunnyPeak season- Little tunny 62
- Scup 60
- Spot 58
17 kt NEL 1:24 AM · 0.7 ftH 7:48 AM · 2.4 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.