Local Waters
Green Pond (Falmouth town landing)
Falmouth, MA · about 4 hours from Portland (typical, off-peak)
The Falmouth salt pond fly fishers name between Waquoit and the Inner Harbor — town landing, not a dock.
Salt River / stream Lake / pond Shop (desk) Guide only Parking Stay State access Private — ask first
- Season
- Harvest is year-round on paper (28" to under 31", one fish). Schoolies are the usual fly fish here in season. Confirm current DMF rules. Official rule
- License
- Massachusetts saltwater permit
- Park
- Town / OFBA Green Pond Town Landing on Davisville Road, Falmouth. Public ramp and shore pin. Menauhant Road is the pond road — use the landing lot.
- Walk in
- Short from the landing to public pond edge.
- Wading
- Salt pond. Mud and eelgrass. Stay at the landing.
- Usual window
- Moving tide at the outlet. Confirm MassWildlife / DMF.
- Wednesday conditions
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SW 2 mph around dawn. Fine to go.
- Sky
- ⛅ 87° partly
- Sun and moon
- Rise 6:01 · 🌔 Waxing gibbous · Set 7:27
- Wind at dawn
- SW 2 mph onshore · Partly Cloudy · 63°F
- Wind later
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- dawn: SW 2 mph
- 10am: SW 1 mph
- 2pm: W 2 mph
- dusk: W 7 mph
- Tide
- Low 2:44 am (0.5 ft) · High 7:29 am (1.7 ft) · Low 1:41 pm (0.5 ft) · High 8:00 pm (2.2 ft) Best moving water is the three hours into 7:29 am high. · Woods Hole (Green Pond lags — sketch)
- A setup that belongs here
- 8-wt, crab, Clouser, shrimp.
- Notes
- Town landing / OFBA. Confirm MassWildlife / DMF.
Small landing. If it is full, leave. Private pond shores are posted.
Log this trip
Private. On this phone, and in your test book if you signed in on Journal.
Shops
Guides
Shop desks, plus a few independents who fish public water. We do not take a cut. Call them.
Bear's Den — salt and South Shore
Taunton, MA · shore / wade · Half or full day — ask the shop
Good for: First striper from the beach or Canal, South Shore
Book through the shop. We do not take the money.