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CobiaShoulder seasonBay · Virginia
Killmon Cove
37.54°N · 75.93°W · Bay · Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA
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Best score today · 1 AM · Cobia
- Now
- 3512 PM EDT
- Best window
- 5-9 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing1.0 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 12 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
70Tide: EbbingCurrent: SlackWind & pressure
ECMWF
12Gusts over the limit · capped at 35Wind: 22 kt NEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
57Water temp: 69°F, primeLight: OvercastSolunar: Near a majorSeas: 3.0 ftSeason & habitat · Cobia
Species seasonality
55Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Cobia is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with VMRC before you keep a fish.
Source: VMRC · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Cobia is best here
Shoulder season for Cobia · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Killmon Cove
- Depth
- Up to 3 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- 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 Killmon Cove
Killmon Cove is a bay in Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA, Virginia. Depth is up to 3 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are bluefish, striped bass and black sea bass. It is peak season now for little tunny, red drum, scup and sheepshead, and shoulder season for bluefish, striped bass, black sea bass and king mackerel. Bluefish peak in May and from October through November. Striped bass peak from April through May and from October through December. Black sea bass peak from May through June and from October through November.
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.
- Bluefish
- Bluefish travel in size-sorted schools and feed where tide pushes bait past structure: inlet mouths, rips, shoal edges and the surf line, mostly in water shallower than 60 feet. Look for birds and breaking bait and cast metal or poppers into it, or soak cut bunker or mullet on the bottom from the beach. Use a short wire or heavy leader because their teeth cut light line.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Scarborough Gut53
Gut · 1.6 mi
Top: Black sea bassShoulder season- Black sea bass 53
- Striped bass 49
- Bluefish 46
22 kt NEL 3:24 PM · 0.3 ftH 9:16 PM · 1.8 ft
- Powells Bluff52
Cape · 1.0 mi
Top: BluefishShoulder season- Bluefish 52
- Striped bass 51
- Black sea bass 47
22 kt NEL 3:24 PM · 0.3 ftH 9:16 PM · 1.8 ft
- Gaskins Point52
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: BluefishShoulder season- Bluefish 52
- Striped bass 51
- Black sea bass 48
22 kt NEL 3:24 PM · 0.3 ftH 9:16 PM · 1.8 ft
- Johns Point52
Cape · 1.3 mi
Top: BluefishShoulder season- Bluefish 52
- Striped bass 51
- Black sea bass 48
22 kt NEL 3:24 PM · 0.3 ftH 9:16 PM · 1.8 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 VMRC before you keep a fish.