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Best score today · 3 PM · Sheepshead
- Now
- 355 PM EST
- Best window
- 6-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High2.6 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
Sunday, Nov 15 · 5 PM
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Tide & current
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Season & habitat · Sheepshead
Species seasonality
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Sheepshead 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 Sheepshead is best here
Out of season for Sheepshead · it leaves next week
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Tyndal Point
- Depth
- 8-45 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · slope
- Season
- Off seasonSheepshead
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 Tyndal Point
Tyndal Point is a cape in Peconic and Gardiners Bays, New York. Depth in the nearest water is 8-45 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are striped bass, scup and black sea bass. It is peak season now for striped bass, black sea bass, tautog and bluefish, and shoulder season for scup, spot, little tunny and weakfish. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Scup peak from June through October. Black sea bass peak from May through June and from October through November.
Tackle & technique
- Sheepshead
- Sheepshead graze barnacles and crabs off pilings, jetty rocks, bridge supports, oyster bars and nearshore reefs, from a few feet deep out to about 50 feet. Drop a fiddler crab, sand flea or piece of shrimp on a small, strong hook straight down next to the structure with just enough weight to hold bottom. The bite is a light tap, so keep the line tight and set the hook fast.
- 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
- Gleason Point76
Cape · 1.1 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 76
- Scup 67
- Spotted seatrout 65
10 kt SWH 5:37 PM · 2.5 ftL 11:53 PM · 0.2 ft
- Smith Cove73
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 73
- Striped bass 71
- Tautog 65
10 kt SWL 10:57 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:34 AM · 2.7 ft
- Majors Point73
Cape · 1.5 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 73
- Scup 67
- Black sea bass 60
10 kt SWL 10:57 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:34 AM · 2.7 ft
- Dickerson Creek73
Bay · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 73
- Striped bass 66
- Spotted seatrout 65
10 kt SWL 10:54 PM · 0.3 ftH 5:38 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.