Pleasant Bay

Type
Saltwater flats, Massachusetts (East)
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
7 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on Pleasant Bay

Tides: see the readings below
Why there is no reading

Tidal water has no streamflow gauge. Tide predictions, water level and water temperature from the nearest NOAA stations are in the readings below.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Pleasant Bay is a saltwater flats in Massachusetts.

More about Pleasant Bay

7 guides and 1 shop nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Cape Cod.

Updated

Salt marsh and a tidal channel near Muddy Creek on Pleasant Bay
Photo credit

Tidal marsh near Muddy Creek on Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

Pleasant Bay is a saltwater flats in Massachusetts. Our destination hub Cape Cod is 4 mi away in a straight line and lists it among its waters.

Tides, level and temperature
Reading NOAA tide stations…

Sources Tides & Currents

About these readings

Tidal and coastal waters have no USGS streamflow gauge. Tide predictions and observed water level and temperature come from the nearest NOAA stations, named with their distance; we do not estimate them.

Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Pleasant Bay

Restrooms near Pleasant Bay

Restrooms within 2 miles of Pleasant Bay in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Pleasant Bay

Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Guides and shops near Pleasant Bay

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

  • Zen Charters

    Chatham, MA · 3 mi

    Monomoy

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Monomoy Sportfishing

    Chatham, MA · 3 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Monomoy

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Blue Mind Outfitter

    Barnstable, MA · 18 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons · Cape Cod Bay

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Salty Fly Cape Cod

    Barnstable, MA · 18 mi

    Beginners & lessons

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Topspin Fishing Charters

    Nantucket, MA · 33 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Bill Fisher Outfitters

    Nantucket, MA · 34 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • The Local Tide

    Edgartown, MA · 39 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

1 shop nearby

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

What 6 nearby guide websites mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 6 nearby guide websites

  • Striped bass6
  • Tuna5
  • Bonefish1
  • Tarpon1
How we put this together

Named by guides nearby (within 40 miles), counted from the species each guide lists on its own site. No agency page we hold lists species for this water.

Cape Cod

About this

Cape Cod bends 65 miles into the Atlantic from the canal to Provincetown; Chatham sits at the elbow beside the Monomoy flats, with Nantucket Sound to the south, Cape Cod Bay to the north and the outer beaches facing east.

Destination hub · 4 mi away in a straight line

Gear checklist

About this

A saltwater flats fly-fishing checklist: a 9 ft 8 weight rod, sealed-drag reel, tropical line, fluorocarbon leaders and shrimp/crab flies, plus sun protection and flats booties, with estimated prices and where to buy.

Hands hold a bonefish just above the shallow water of a sand flat before releasing it

Saltwater flats

9′ rod, 8 weight, sealed-drag reel, tropical floating line · Bonefish, redfish, permit and other flats species

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (2)

Watch: flats fishing basics

About this

Sight casting, the strip set and sun on the water.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • FLY FISHING FOR REDFISH BASICS 101 INTRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERSEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • How To Set Up For A Bonefish TripEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on saltwater flats

Fish Tales

About this

Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Pleasant Bay.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 8 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown; tides from NOAA CO-OPS. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Pleasant Bay” (bay) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.