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CobiaShoulder season

Bar · South Carolina

Great North Breakers

32.22°N · 80.61°W · Bar · Coastal waters from Edisto Beach SC to Savannah GA out 20 NM

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Best score today · 2 AM · Cobia

80/100Great

Now: 445 AM EDT
Best window: 8 AM-12 PMEbb tide
Tide now: Flooding5.7 ft ▲

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Sat · 83

24-hour conditions · rolling from now

Conditions · 5 AM · now

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Time5ANOW

Score44Fair

Tide5.7 ft ▲Flooding

CurrentSlack0.2 kn

Wind8 kn NNEgusts 14 · steady

Sea stateLight chop1.9 ft · 4 s

Air temp72°Warm

WeatherOvercast100% cloud

Water84°FObserved

WED · SEP 23

THU · SEP 24

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Cobia is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with SCDNR before you keep a fish.

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Source: SCDNR · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Cobia is best here

Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Great North Breakers

Depth: 9-50 ftDrop-off
Structure: Bar · Outer · ExposedBar · drop-off
Season: Shoulder seasonCobia

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 Great North Breakers

Great North Breakers is a bar in Coastal waters from Edisto Beach SC to Savannah GA out 20 NM, South Carolina. Depth is 9-50 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads bar, outer water and exposed.

Waterlands scores 28 species here; the best right now are Atlantic croaker, spot and Atlantic tarpon. It is peak season now for Atlantic croaker, spot, Atlantic tarpon and gray snapper, and shoulder season for Florida pompano, red snapper, black sea bass and gray triggerfish. Atlantic croaker peak from August through October. Spot peak from September through October. Atlantic tarpon peak from July through September.

Tackle & technique

Cobia: Cobia cruise inlets, beaches, buoys, wrecks and the backs of rays in 5 to 100 feet of water. On calm, sunny days sight-cast bucktails or live eels to fish near the surface. Otherwise anchor up-current of structure, chum, and fish live eels, crabs or menhaden near the bottom.
Atlantic croaker: Croaker feed on mud and sand bottom along channel edges, oyster bars, piers and deeper holes in bays and sounds, mostly in 5 to 30 feet of water. A two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and shrimp, bloodworm or squid catches them from piers, the surf and small boats. Fish the hours around high tide and into the evening.
Spot: Spot school over mud and sand in bays, tidal creeks and channels and around piers and bridges, generally in less than 25 feet of water. Fish a two-hook bottom rig with small hooks and bits of bloodworm or shrimp, and move until you find a school. In fall the biggest fish run out of the sounds past piers and inlets, and the bite can go all day.

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Bay Point
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- Atlantic croaker 75
- Spot 73
- Atlantic tarpon 73
9 kt NNEH 6:18 AM · 6.6 ftL 12:29 PM · 1.1 ft
Joiner Bank
Bar · 2.7 mi
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Top: Atlantic croakerPeak season
- Atlantic croaker 74
- Spot 71
- Atlantic tarpon 66
9 kt NNEH 6:03 AM · 6.1 ftL 12:05 PM · 1.3 ft
Baypoint Reach
Channel · 0.4 mi
73
Top: Atlantic croakerPeak season
- Atlantic croaker 73
- Atlantic tarpon 67
- Gray snapper 64
8 kt NNEH 6:03 AM · 6.1 ftL 12:05 PM · 1.3 ft
Fishing Rip
Bar · 1.4 mi
73
Top: Atlantic croakerPeak season
- Atlantic croaker 73
- Spot 71
- Atlantic tarpon 68
9 kt NNEH 6:03 AM · 6.1 ftL 12:05 PM · 1.3 ft

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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 SCDNR before you keep a fish.