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WeakfishShoulder seasonCape · Virginia
Ball Point
37.68°N · 76.48°W · Cape · Rappahannock River from Urbanna to Windmill Point
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Best score today · 4 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 515 AM EST
- Best window
- 2-6 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- High1.4 ft
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Saturday, Nov 7 · 8 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
91Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.6 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
97Wind: 3 kt NNWPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC
85Water temp: 62°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
55Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Weakfish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with VMRC before you keep a fish.
Source: VMRC · synced yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Weakfish is best here
Shoulder season for Weakfish · 4 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Ball Point
- Depth
- 2-25 ftSlope
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonWeakfish
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 Ball Point
Ball Point is a cape in Rappahannock River from Urbanna to Windmill Point, Virginia. Depth is 2-25 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 spot. It is peak season now for striped bass, spotted seatrout, bluefish and tautog, 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. Spot peak from August through October.
Tackle & technique
- Weakfish
- Weakfish hold along channel edges, grass beds, oyster bars and bridge shadows in bays and sounds, usually in 5 to 40 feet of water, and feed hardest at dawn, dusk and after dark. Swim soft plastics or bucktails slowly near the bottom, or drift peeler crab and bloodworms. They have soft mouths, so keep the drag light and the pressure steady.
- 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
- Dead and Bones Cove69
Bay · 2.3 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 69
- Spotted seatrout 68
- Spot 65
3 kt NEL 11:57 AM · 0.4 ftH 5:44 PM · 1.5 ft
- Carter Cove69
Bay · 2.4 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 69
- Spot 66
- Spotted seatrout 65
3 kt NEL 11:57 AM · 0.4 ftH 5:44 PM · 1.5 ft
- Yankee Point65
Cape · 0.8 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 65
- Scup 62
- Spot 59
3 kt NEL 11:57 AM · 0.4 ftH 5:44 PM · 1.5 ft
- Bar Point65
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: Striped bassPeak season- Striped bass 65
- Scup 62
- Spot 59
3 kt NEL 11:57 AM · 0.4 ftH 5:44 PM · 1.5 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.