Northeast tide guides
Northeast tide fishing.
Maine to Long Island — semidiurnal Atlantic tides, strong inlet currents, and the Cape Cod Canal as the most tide-driven striped bass fishery in the United States.
Regions
- Maine & New Hampshire Inletssemidiurnal · 8–12 ft
Macrotidal-influenced semidiurnal tides with strong currents and 8–12 ft typical range. Inlet currents are extreme.
- Massachusetts & Cape Cod Estuariessemidiurnal · 8–11 ft
Strong semidiurnal tides with 8–11 ft typical range. The Cape Cod Canal current reverses every six hours and drives the local fishery.
- Rhode Island & Connecticut Sound Inletssemidiurnal · 3–5 ft
Moderate semidiurnal tides with 3–5 ft typical range. Sound geography mutes Atlantic tide swings. Block Island and Watch Hill are the major fishable structure.
- Long Island Sound & New York Inletssemidiurnal · 4–8 ft
Strong semidiurnal tides with 4–8 ft range. Montauk Point and Plum Gut produce some of the East Coast's most violent tide-driven bluefish blitzes during fall migration.