Harveys Big Pond near Placentia: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Within Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, you have Harveys Big Pond. It sits at 97 metres above sea level. At about 29 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The full circuit measures close to 2.6 km on foot. It is among the larger waters listed here for Placentia. Placentia lies 18 km from the water. Further out sit Whitbourne (35 km) and Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview (54 km). It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Harveys Big Pond

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Across Placentia, recorded fish include American eel, Arctic charr, Atlantic sturgeon, brook trout and bull-rout. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. At Harveys Big Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, August reads 16°C and February reads -5°C. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Time your trip to Harveys Big Pond by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Brians Pond, 2.4 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Harveys Big Pond is worth confirming on the day.