Burgess Head Pond Fishing in Come By Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Burgess Head Pond is one of the Come By Chance listings for Newfoundland and Labrador. The country round it is pine and birch from end to end. The water measures roughly 9 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Nearest place of any size is Clarenville, 35 km away. After that come Clarenville-Shoal Harbour at 37 km and Victoria at 46 km. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Burgess Head Pond

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Come By Chance cover brook trout, American eel, bull-rout, Atlantic hook-ear sculpin and Atlantic tomcod. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Burgess Head Pond repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, August reads 16°C and February reads -6°C. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near mid December in autumn. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Burgess Head Pond fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lady Cove Pond, 1 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Signs at Burgess Head Pond carry more weight than any list.