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Best score today · 3 PM · Weakfish
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- 616 PM EST
- Best window
- 7 PM-12 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
Friday, Nov 6 · 5 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.0 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 6 kt SSWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
74Water temp: 60°F, primeLight: DuskSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 2.4 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
71Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: 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 today
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
Northwest Harbor
- Depth
- 7-10 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · 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 Northwest Harbor
Northwest Harbor is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 7-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass and spot. It is peak season now for striped bass, tautog, spotted seatrout and black sea bass, and shoulder season for scup, spot, weakfish and little tunny. 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
- 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.
- 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
- Cedar Point78
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 78
- Scup 67
- Spotted seatrout 67
9 kt SSWL 11:23 PM · 0.2 ftH 5:51 AM · 2.7 ft
- Sag Harbor Bay72
Bay · 1.7 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 72
- Striped bass 68
- Spotted seatrout 64
9 kt SSWL 11:51 PM · 0.3 ftH 6:32 AM · 2.8 ft
- Barcelona Bank71
Bar · 0.6 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 71
- Bluefish 67
- Scup 67
9 kt SSWL 11:23 PM · 0.2 ftH 5:51 AM · 2.7 ft
- Mashomack Point70
Cape · 1.3 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 70
- Scup 67
- Spotted seatrout 60
9 kt SSWL 11:51 PM · 0.3 ftH 6:32 AM · 2.8 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.