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Best score today · 3 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 5812 PM EST
- Best window
- 3-6 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding0.5 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
Saturday, Nov 7 · 6 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.0 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
91Wind: 3 kt SWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
90Water temp: 60°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 1.2 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 yesterday
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
Spring Pond
- Depth
- 3-7 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 Spring Pond
Spring Pond is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 3-7 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are tautog, scup and spotted seatrout. It is peak season now for tautog, spotted seatrout, black sea bass and striped bass, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, winter flounder and red drum. Tautog peak in April 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.
- Tautog
- Tautog live in rocks, wrecks, bridge pilings and jetties and rarely stray from cover, usually in 10 to 60 feet inshore and deeper in late fall. Anchor so the bait sits in the structure, fish crab on a short rig or a tog jig, and set hard on the second tap before the fish pulls into the rocks. Clams and worms work better in cold spring water; hard crabs are the standard in fall.
- 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
- Greenport Harbor68
Bay · 1.5 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 68
- Black sea bass 66
- Scup 66
6 kt WSWH 6:01 PM · 2.6 ftL 11:48 PM · 0.3 ft
- Hay Beach Point66
Cape · 0.9 mi
Top: Black sea bassPeak season- Black sea bass 66
- Scup 66
- Tautog 66
6 kt WSWH 6:01 PM · 2.6 ftL 11:48 PM · 0.3 ft
- Stirling Basin64
Bay · 1.2 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 64
- Scup 62
- Black sea bass 58
6 kt WSWH 6:01 PM · 2.6 ftL 11:48 PM · 0.3 ft
- Cornelius Point62
Cape · 1.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 62
- Tautog 60
- Black sea bass 59
6 kt WSWH 6:01 PM · 2.6 ftL 11:48 PM · 0.3 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.