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Best score today · 3 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 694 PM EST
- Best window
- 6-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding2.7 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
Saturday, Nov 7 · 6 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.0 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 4 kt NEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
90Water temp: 60°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 0.9 ftSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
70Season: 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 · 4 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Orient Harbor
- Depth
- 15-20 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · 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 Orient Harbor
Orient Harbor 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 spotted seatrout. It is peak season now for striped bass, spotted seatrout, tautog and black sea bass, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, spot and little tunny. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Scup peak from June through October. Spotted seatrout peak from October through November.
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.
- 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
- Hay Beach Point80
Cape · 1.9 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 80
- Scup 74
- Black sea bass 72
11 kt SWL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:38 AM · 2.7 ft
- Browns Point78
Cape · 1.6 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 78
- Spotted seatrout 69
- Scup 68
7 kt SWL 10:47 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:19 AM · 2.7 ft
- Spring Pond77
Bay · 1.6 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 77
- Spotted seatrout 73
- Scup 71
11 kt SWL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:38 AM · 2.7 ft
- Eagle Point74
Cape · 1.9 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 74
- Scup 68
- Spotted seatrout 64
7 kt SWL 10:47 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:19 AM · 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.