Fishing near Falmouth in Barnstable County, MA

3.79 Rating based on 214 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 139
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 258
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1.5 pounder on the drop shot
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1 pounder on the drop shot
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2 pounder
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belly shot!
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3 pounder!!
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Top Fishing Spots near Falmouth

Grews Pond
Grews Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2355

Mares Pond
Mares Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2474

Jenkins Pond
Jenkins Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2772

Coonamessett River
Coonamessett River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2446

Crooked Pond
Crooked Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2587

Deep Pond
Deep Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 3829

Falmouth Area Fish Species

Recent Falmouth Fishing Reports

killing a few hours on the water Fishing Report Mar 14, 2013

killing a few hours on the water

jenkins pond -

snuck out of college to kill a few hours between classes to do some fishing in a pond down the road. i started out throwing a jig and a jerkbait with ...

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first smallie of the year! Fishing Report Apr 08, 2013

first smallie of the year!

jenkins -

went out for an hour after class to kill sometime and relax after a brutal test in physics i need to get away. i was fishing the first beach for about...

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Open Water February  Fishing Report Feb 23, 2013

Open Water February

Falmouth -

went out fishing with my buddy the other day to do a little open water bass fishing in a smaller pond that is mostly open but has ice on the easier si...

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4/27/14 kettle pond Fishing Report Apr 27, 2014

4/27/14 kettle pond

upper cape kettle pond -

Went out for 3 hours in the drizzle to a favorite kettle pond of mine in the falmouth area. Primarily worked black/blue and wicked pumpkin LTD baits j...

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coonamessett pond Fishing Report May 20, 2012

coonamessett pond

Falmouth -

went out from 9:30 to 2 and caught about a dozen or so smallies and largies and on monster saw a lot of bigger ones swimming around not biting though...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Ashumet Pond Falmouth/Mashpee Fishing Report Sep 09, 2017

Ashumet Pond Falmouth/Mashpee

Ashumet Pond Falmouth/Mashpee -

Got on the water early, 6 AM. Very Calm and Still. At 9-10 the wind picked up and so did the bite. Started morning with Sexy Shad Lipless crankait (Wh...

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Baits and Tackle used near Falmouth

Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
    1st was 11-1/2"
    2nd was 6"
  • Drop Shot
  • Ultra light mitchell spidercast reel combo 4lb test, fun fun fun. when the bass aren't hitting
  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
  • frogs
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • Worm
  • Rubber worm Wacky Style
  • You can use just about any lures here, as we've had luck with all of em. Also, Nightcrawlers and shiners work good.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • wroms
  • We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
  • eels on the bottom
  • sandworms
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • eels
  • green crabs
  • greencrabs
  • Sand Eels
  • Clams

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
  • You already know
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • Flipping a laydown
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines

Tube Check Prices

  • 1 Keeper:
    1-1/4lbs

    1 Short
  • 2 Keepers:
    1.79lbs
    1lb

    2 shorts

Minnow Check Prices

  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Shiner live lining.
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • mumpers
  • Live minnow under a float

Topwater Bait Check Prices

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
  • 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig
  • Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard
  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • This Big Bastard Stole My Lure!
  • 5 between 3" and 11"
  • berkley slug baby bass color
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Shad colored 5" Senko

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Barbie color spinnerbait cranking from out from shore line. This fish hit in about 10 ft of water had a couple of more followers but that was it. Then the winds and rain picked up and it was tuff fishing from there on in .My boater caught a nice one about 4 hrs later with a crank bait and that was it on the hits fished many of the same spots as Micahel K draging jigs and tubes not a bite. big fish of the day was 6+ large mouth and a 5+ smallie
  • Spinnerbait, Drop shot
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, white skirt, double-willow blades
  • white, double-nickel willow blades, 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • 1/4oz chartreuse/lime spinnerbait w/ colorado/willow twin nickel blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits
  • squid and minnows

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • 4in senkos in various colors

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Joes fly
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol

Worm Check Prices

  • 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
  • Started with pumpkinseed lizard and switched to 5" baby bass senko
  • Senko
  • 4 inch green pumkin senko rigged wacky
  • Berkley 7" Black Shad
    Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise
  • Wacky Style
  • Strike King Shim-E-Stick(like a Senko) in watermelon green with black/red flake
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
  • Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Bladed baits

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Only one keeper out of the 5 I caught and in was 12" 3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3.72lb Tourney Lunker
    Other two were 1-1/2lbs each
  • My limit was:
    2.30lbs
    Three 1lbers
    13oz

  • Dropshot
  • Drop shot
  • Keepers were:
    2.77lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1-1/2lbs
    1-1/4lbs

    One 11" short
  • 1lb, 3/4lb, 11', and 8" on the Drop Shot, 10" on C-Rig
  • Drop Shot
    1 Keeper @ 1-3/4lbs
    Four 11" range shorts
  • 3 healthy Pickerel
  • 3 shorts

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish
  • GOOD OLD SENKO

Craw Check Prices

  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • deceivers,silversides,sand eel paterns

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
    Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
  • 3 on Squarebill, 1 on Drop Shot.
  • 2lb 6oz, and 1lb 2oz
  • rapala bleeding floater
  • And Lipless Crank
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.
  • Rapala Original Floater F-11 - Minnow
  • kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Northland minnow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • White grub

Flies Check Prices

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Other Check Prices

  • Twitch twitch pause with a jerkbait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • chartruse power bait
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)

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