Fishing Long Pond in Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Long Pond is listed under Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador. The country round it is pine and birch from end to end. Roughly 22 hectares: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Few waters listed in Marystown are bigger. Head to Marystown, 3.7 km away, for anything you forgot. St. John's sits 190 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Long Pond

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Records held for Marystown cover American eel and bull-rout. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Read Long Pond before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, August reads 16°C and February reads -5°C. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around late April and starts locking again about late December. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. It holds true on Long Pond more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Jim Farrells Pond is 1.4 km distant. Ask locally about Long Pond if anything is unclear.