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Striped bassShoulder season

Cape · Virginia

Stingray Point

37.56°N · 76.30°W · Cape · Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA

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Best score today · 7 PM · Striped bass

67/100Great
Now
498 AM EDT
Best window
6-8 PMFlood tide
Tide now
Flooding1.3 ft ▲

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Thu · 83

24-hour conditions · rolling from now

Conditions · 8 AM · now

Time8ANOW
Score49Good
Tide1.3 ft ▲Flooding
CurrentFlood0.3 kn · toward WNW
Wind12 kn NNEgusts 23 · steady
Sea stateModerate3.0 ft · 4 s
Air temp64°Mild
WeatherOvercast94% chance of rain
Water76°FObserved

Current regulations

What you can keep here today

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

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Source: VMRC · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Striped bass is best here

Shoulder season for Striped bass · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Stingray Point

Depth
2-4 ftFlat bottom
Structure
Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · flat bottom
Season
Shoulder seasonStriped bass

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 Stingray Point

Stingray Point is a cape in Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA, Virginia. Depth is 2-4 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.

Waterlands scores 17 species here; the best right now are scup, spot and little tunny. It is peak season now for scup, spot, little tunny and Spanish mackerel, and shoulder season for bluefish, black sea bass, Atlantic croaker and striped bass. Scup peak from June through October. Spot peak from August through October. Little tunny peak from September through October.

Tackle & technique

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.
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.

Nearby spots

Other spots within an easy run

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  • Mosquito Point

    Cape · 4.8 mi

    67
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 67
    • Scup 62
    • Spot 62

    12 kt NNEH 9:51 AM · 1.4 ftL 4:08 PM · 0.6 ft

  • Rappahanncock Spit

    Bar · 3.7 mi

    65
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 65
    • Spanish mackerel 64
    • Scup 62

    12 kt NNEH 9:17 AM · 1.5 ftL 3:26 PM · 0.6 ft

  • Rappahannock Spit

    Bar · 4.3 mi

    65
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 65
    • Spanish mackerel 64
    • Scup 62

    12 kt NNEH 9:16 AM · 1.1 ftL 3:41 PM · 0.3 ft

  • Deep Hole Point

    Cape · 4.3 mi

    64
    Top: Little tunnyPeak season
    • Little tunny 64
    • Scup 62
    • Spot 62

    12 kt NNEH 9:17 AM · 1.5 ftL 3:26 PM · 0.6 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 VMRC before you keep a fish.