Fishing Goodyears Pond in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Newfoundland and Labrador holds Goodyears Pond, in Gambo. The bank is 41 metres above sea level. Roughly 13 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Bank access stretches around 1.8 km in total. Head to Gambo, 12 km away, for anything you forgot. St. John's sits 188 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Goodyears Pond

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Gambo records list Atlantic salmon, brook trout, Arctic charr, American eel and rainbow smelt among the fish reported. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Work Goodyears Pond in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 16°C and February at -8°C. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near early December in autumn. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Goodyears Pond runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Should this one be busy, Joes Pond is 2.5 km off. None of that is settled for Goodyears Pond in what we hold.