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Best score today · 6 AM · Striped bass
- Now
- 7312 PM EST
- Best window
- 2-4 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding0.8 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 13 · 10 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.2 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 6 kt SWPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
76Water temp: 58°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Striped bass
Species seasonality
88Season: PeakHabitat: Structure unmappedDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Tautog 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 Tautog is best here
Peak season for Tautog · 8 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Stirling Basin
- Depth
- 2-6 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Peak seasonTautog
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 Stirling Basin
Stirling Basin is a bay in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth is 2-6 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are tautog, striped bass and scup. It is peak season now for tautog, striped bass, black sea bass and spotted seatrout, and shoulder season for scup, weakfish, spot and winter flounder. Tautog peak in April and from October through December. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Scup peak from June through October.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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
- Greenport Harbor74
Bay · 0.6 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 74
- Black sea bass 73
- Striped bass 71
10 kt SWH 4:52 PM · 2.6 ftL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ft
- Dering Harbor74
Bay · 1.5 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 74
- Black sea bass 72
- Striped bass 71
10 kt SWH 4:52 PM · 2.6 ftL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ft
- Hay Beach Point73
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: Black sea bassPeak season- Black sea bass 73
- Striped bass 72
- Tautog 72
10 kt SWH 4:52 PM · 2.6 ftL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ft
- Spring Pond71
Bay · 1.2 mi
Top: TautogPeak season- Tautog 71
- Striped bass 69
- Scup 67
10 kt SWH 4:52 PM · 2.6 ftL 10:54 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.