Gull Pond Fishing near Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Out in Come By Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, sits Gull Pond. The coast is 5 km away. Small at around 6 hectares: two anglers spread out cover most of it. On size it sits at the modest end of our Come By Chance list. Some 29 km away sits Clarenville, the nearest settlement. The big place round here is St. John's, 87 km distant. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Gull Pond

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Public occurrence data for Come By Chance names brook trout, American eel and bull-rout. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Gull Pond the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about -6°C in February to roughly 16°C in August. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up near late April, freeze-up near mid December: that is the shape of an average year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Gull Pond fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Should this one be busy, Davis Pond is 1.4 km off. Nothing here settles the position at Gull Pond for certain.