howsthebite · New York
How's the bite in New York today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
2 tracked waters in NY. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Picky | Salmon River | — | 5.34 ft | 3:03 AM–5:03 AM |
| 4 Picky | Montauk | 70.5°F | 1.772 ft | 2:46 AM–4:46 AM |
Rebuilt 8:57 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A New York fishing licence runs $25 a year for residents. DEC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a New York fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish New York without a licence →What you may keep
NYSDEC sets a size or bag limit for 24 species here — 19 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- American eel
- American shad closed today
- Anadromous river herring (alewife and blueback herring) closed today
- Atlantic cod
- Atlantic menhaden (bunker)
- Atlantic sturgeon closed today
- Black sea bass
- Bluefish
- Cobia
- Haddock
- Hickory shad
- King mackerel
- Monkfish (goosefish)
- Oyster toadfish
- Pollock
- Red drum
- Scup (porgy)
- Spanish mackerel
- Striped bass
- Summer flounder (fluke)
- Tautog (blackfish) closed today
- Weakfish
- Winter flounder closed today
- Yellowtail flounder
Can you eat what you catch?
That call belongs to New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) — split into three regions, with tighter limits for people who may become pregnant and for children under 15. We link the source instead of paraphrasing health advice.
NYSDOH consumption advisories →