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Best score today · 3 PM · Spotted seatrout
- Now
- 737 AM EST
- Best window
- 3-6 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing2.3 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
Monday, Nov 16 · 7 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
96Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.3 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 9 kt NEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
75Water temp: 59°F, coolLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Spotted seatrout
Species seasonality
97Season: PeakHabitat: Usable structureDepth: 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 · 2 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Noyack Creek
- Depth
- 3-4 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Estuary · Inner · ProtectedEstuary · 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 Noyack Creek
Noyack Creek is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 3-4 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads estuary, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, spotted seatrout and striped bass. It is peak season now for spotted seatrout, striped bass, bluefish and tautog, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, spot and red drum. Scup peak from June through October. Spotted seatrout peak from October through November. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December.
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.
- Spotted seatrout
- Trout hold over grass beds and sandy potholes in 2 to 8 feet of water most of the year and slide into channels, deep creek bends and canals during cold snaps. A live shrimp under a slip or popping cork, a paddle tail on a light jighead, or a topwater walked at first light covers most situations. Keep the drag light because their mouths tear easily.
- 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
- Jessup Neck75
Cape · 1.1 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 75
- Scup 68
- Bluefish 66
8 kt WSWL 12:19 PM · 0.4 ftH 6:44 PM · 2.4 ft
- Shelter Island Sound75
Bay · 2.9 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 75
- Scup 73
- Tautog 73
8 kt WSWL 12:08 PM · 0.4 ftH 6:22 PM · 2.4 ft
- Noyack Bay73
Bay · 1.8 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 73
- Striped bass 72
- Tautog 70
8 kt WSWL 12:19 PM · 0.4 ftH 6:44 PM · 2.4 ft
- Little Peconic Bay73
Bay · 2.0 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 73
- Striped bass 69
- Tautog 67
9 kt WSWL 12:46 PM · 0.5 ftH 7:05 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.