Long Pond Fishing in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Long Pond stands in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. Salt water lies 5.3 km off. Roughly 30 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The full circuit measures close to 2.9 km on foot. Supplies mean a trip to Clarenville-Shoal Harbour, 14 km off. The big place round here is St. John's, 112 km distant. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Long Pond

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Fish documented in Clarenville include Atlantic salmon and brook trout. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. The near bank of Long Pond is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between February at about -6°C and August at about 16°C, the water has a wide range to work through. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at mid December. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. That is the shape of the year on Long Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. 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. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Big Pond sits 3.7 km off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Long Pond in what we hold.