Healeys Pond Fishing Guide, Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador, is where Healeys Pond sits. The setting is mixed forest on every side. This is a pocket water of some 10 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. About 1.7 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Whitbourne. Whitbourne sits 2.5 km from the bank. St. John's sits 66 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No boundary runs near, so the local rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Healeys Pond

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Survey and observation records for Whitbourne include American eel. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Healeys 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 closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at late December. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. The season on Healeys Pond rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Black Duck Pond sits 1.5 km off and takes the overflow. Check the current arrangement for Healeys Pond.