A couple of responses to questions:
I put in at the ramp at the base of the Red Brook Rd. It's the closest
public ramp to Mashpee river I know of. I've also been scouting around
the stream that goes up into the cranberry bogs near there. No luck there.
Typically I get as far up the Mashpee river as I can with the tide and
take my time, casting shrimp-like things along the sea grass at high tide
or mummichog-like streamers along the bottom otherwise.
I picked up some green weedless No. 6 shrimp at eastman's and
also have some Umpqua 'Clouser sculpin' size 6 and 8. I also fish
various bonefish flies, but not with as much faith as the two above.
Setting up a fine minnow net on the bottom and stirring the bottom
and weeds around it usually gives a hint on what to fish.
I've tried to fish the very upper reaches of Scorton's with no success.
The only other place I hooked up was at the mouth of the Quashnet, where
'something' took the no. 6 green shrimp fly back in November, but broke me
off. Still not sure what it was but most likely not a bass.
I've had a great time at the southside streams this winter. There is nobody
there, and at the very worst, there's almost always schoolies.