Inshore · 60 ft · beaches, bays, inlets and rips

False Albacore

Euthynnus alletteratus. Prime water reaches Cape Cod Bay in New England right now (64°F at the surface). Fish it around 0 ft down — that is where 64°F water sits off Cape Cod Bay.

False Albacore identification illustration
LaneInshore · 10 fa (60 ft)
Depth it holds16–131 ft
Prime water64–73°F (workable 64–79°F)
Holds in the column0–98 ft down below the surface, over 16–131 ft of water
Judged onsurface temperature (NASA MUR satellite)
Structurenone

The water column off Montauk

0 ft30 ft60 ft60 ft of workable water0–60 ft · 68–68°F

The strip is the water itself, coloured by temperature from the surface down to the 60 ft surveyed bottom at that spot — one band per RTOFS model level. The outlined stretch is where False Albacore's temperature band (64–79°F) and the depth it holds actually overlap. That thickness is the number that matters: it is how much water you can work, not just whether the spot is warm enough somewhere. One model cycle, not a weekly archive — this holds still while the surface map scrubs.

In 3D

Drag to rotate, pinch or scroll to zoom. 3D model traced from a J. Deeds / U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States government work; public domain reference — source.

How it's fished

Small metals or epoxy jigs cast to surface-feeding schools; fast retrieve.

Region by region — right now

RegionSeasonPrime waterTempFish it atMonths
New England in season reaches Cape Cod Bay 64°F ~0 ft
J
F
M
Mid-Atlantic in season reaches Montauk 67°F 0–60 ft
J
F
M
Southeast Atlantic in season reaches Cape Hatteras 76°F 0–60 ft
J
F
M
A
"Fish it at" is where this species' temperature band and its holding depth overlap in the water column, from the RTOFS profile (13 levels, 0–300 m) — the depth to actually put a bait, not just the place. "Prime water" is the furthest sampled station on the 10-fathom lane whose surface temperature sits inside this species' band. It is water, not a sighting report.
Charted grounds on the 10-fathom lane
Cape Cod Canal (East End)
The Mud Hole
Chesapeake Light Tower
Frying Pan Shoals
The Point — Cape Hatteras