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Best score today · 6 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 674 AM EST
- Best window
- 6-9 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High2.5 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 5 · 9 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.6 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
98Wind: 5 kt SSWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
89Water temp: 59°F, primeLight: OvercastSolunar: Near a majorSeas: 1.0 ftSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
88Season: PeakHabitat: Structure unmappedDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Scup 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 Scup is best here
Shoulder season for Scup · 3 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Little Bay
- Depth
- 2-10 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonScup
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 Little Bay
Little Bay is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 2-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and spot. It is peak season now for striped bass, spotted seatrout, tautog and bluefish, and shoulder season for scup, spot, weakfish and red drum. Scup peak from June through October. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Spot peak from August through October.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Browns Point70
Cape · 1.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 70
- Scup 63
- Spotted seatrout 58
6 kt WSWL 10:14 AM · 0.4 ftH 4:33 PM · 2.7 ft
- Long Beach Bay67
Bay · 0.9 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 67
- Striped bass 63
- Spot 60
6 kt WSWL 10:14 AM · 0.4 ftH 4:33 PM · 2.7 ft
- Eagles Neck Point66
Cape · 0.4 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 66
- Scup 61
- Spot 55
6 kt WSWL 10:14 AM · 0.4 ftH 4:33 PM · 2.7 ft
- Eagle Point66
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 66
- Scup 61
- Spot 55
6 kt WSWL 10:14 AM · 0.4 ftH 4:33 PM · 2.7 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.