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Best score today · 6 PM · Weakfish
- Now
- 502 AM EST
- Best window
- 5-9 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- High2.4 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
Tuesday, Nov 10 · 7 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 1.0 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
91Wind: 10 kt ENEPressure: FallingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
85Water temp: 66°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Weakfish
Species seasonality
53Season: 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
Gloucester Point
- Depth
- 3-70 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · drop-off
- 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 Gloucester Point
Gloucester Point is a cape in York River, Virginia. Depth in the nearest water is 3-70 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 14 species here; the best right now are scup, striped bass 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. Scup peak from June through October. 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Cornwallis Cove69
Bay · 0.7 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 69
- Spot 64
- Black sea bass 59
4 kt NL 7:56 AM · 0.4 ftH 2:14 PM · 2.8 ft
- Point of Rocks69
Cape · 1.2 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 69
- Tautog 62
- Black sea bass 60
4 kt NL 7:56 AM · 0.5 ftH 2:06 PM · 2.8 ft
- Stony Point61
Cape · 1.5 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 61
- Striped bass 61
- Spot 59
4 kt NL 7:56 AM · 0.4 ftH 2:14 PM · 2.8 ft
- Quarter Point61
Cape · 1.6 mi
Top: ScupShoulder season- Scup 61
- Striped bass 60
- Spot 58
4 kt NL 7:56 AM · 0.4 ftH 2:14 PM · 2.8 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.