week of Sep 28
New England — this week
Black Sea Bass, Golden Tilefish, Scup (Porgy) prime. Live MUR satellite water temperatures (change is vs. seven days ago). Tap any spot on the chart with Fish mode on for a point-by-point breakdown.
Water temperature — south to north
| Spot | Now | Week Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Block Island | — | — |
| Cape Cod Bay | — | — |
| Gloucester | — | — |
| Casco Bay | — | — |
| Penobscot Bay | — | — |
In season now — temperature fit
| Species | Fit | Prime | Measured at | Technique |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Sea Bass | 100 | 46–72°F | seabed | Squid or clam on hi-lo rigs directly over wrecks, reefs and rockpiles. |
| Golden Tilefish | 100 | 48–57°F | seabed | Deep-drop gear on the mud-and-clay slope in 500-900 ft; they live in burrows and hold to a narrow band. |
| Scup (Porgy) | 100 | 46–70°F | seabed | Small hooks with squid or worms over hard bottom and mussel beds. |
| Tautog | 100 | 45–64°F | seabed | Green crabs tight to rocks, mussel beds and wreck rubble; light tide. |
| Monkfish (Goosefish) | 79 | 37–54°F | seabed | Heavy bait dragged slow on soft bottom — they ambush from the mud and barely move for it. |
| Red Hake (Ling) | 79 | 39–54°F | seabed | Bait on the bottom around wrecks and mussel beds — the cold-month wreck regular. |
| Silver Hake (Whiting) | 79 | 39–54°F | seabed | Small jigs or bait rigs after dark over soft bottom; they push shallow at night. |
| Pollock | 55 | 37–52°F | seabed | Vertical jigs worked mid-column over ledges and wrecks. |
| White Hake | 31 | 37–50°F | seabed | Heavy bait deep in the mud basins; usually mixed in with the cod and pollock. |
| Atlantic Cod | 8 | 36–50°F | seabed | Jigs or clam baits over gravel and broken bottom; deep and cold. |
| Haddock | 8 | 37–50°F | seabed | Clam or squid baits just off smooth mud/gravel bottom; smaller hooks than cod. |
| Atlantic Halibut | 7 | 37–48°F | seabed | Big baits on gravel and rock in deep water — rare, tightly regulated, a fish of a lifetime. |
| Acadian Redfish | 5 | 39–48°F | seabed | Small jigs or bait rigs deep on the mud-and-rock edges; they stack thick once you find them. |
| Cusk | 5 | 37–48°F | seabed | Bait pinned to rough rocky bottom in the deep basins — slow, stubborn, and strictly a hard-bottom fish. |
Named grounds in New England
Stellwagen Bank
Striped Bass · Bluefin Tuna · Bluefish
Jeffreys Ledge
Atlantic Cod · Pollock · Bluefin Tuna
Cashes Ledge
Atlantic Cod · Pollock · Haddock
Georges Bank
Atlantic Cod · Haddock · Bluefin Tuna
Nantucket Shoals
Bluefish · Striped Bass · Bluefin Tuna
Cox Ledge
Black Sea Bass · Striped Bass · Atlantic Cod
Cape Cod Canal (East End)
Striped Bass · Bluefish
Method: habitat-envelope scoring against live NOAA MUR SST at the sampled spots; season windows and envelopes hand-curated from NOAA Fisheries profiles. No catch hearsay — when it says a species fits, it means the water does.
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