Holyrood Pond Fishing in Gaskiers-Point La Haye, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  You will find Holyrood Pond in Gaskiers-Point La Haye, Newfoundland and Labrador. The bank gives way to rolling bush. This is big water, about 22.06 sq km, and in a wind it behaves like a small sea. At about 50 km of edge, most people fish a single area and learn it well. By surface area it heads our Gaskiers-Point La Haye listings. Placentia at 51 km is the nearest place to stop. The big place round here is St. John's, 101 km distant.

• Where to Fish on Holyrood Pond

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Work the tide here — moving water feeds, slack water rests. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Open biodiversity records for Gaskiers-Point La Haye list Atlantic cod. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. At Holyrood Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put August at about 16°C and February near -4°C. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Count the season from break-up, usually late April. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Holyrood Pond runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. One rod, a handful of hooks and floats, and a few small lures are enough for this water. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Big Hare Hill Pond, 2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Holyrood Pond should be assumed from this page alone.