Salmon Waters, Newfoundland and Labrador: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Salmon Waters lies in Holyrood, in Newfoundland and Labrador. The sea is 20 km distant. The water covers around 1.14 sq km, which puts most of it out of reach from the bank. Bank access stretches around 4.3 km in total. The nearest place of any size is Holyrood, 16 km away. Then Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview, 19 km, and Witless Bay, 29 km. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Salmon Waters

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Open biodiversity records for Holyrood list brook trout, American eel, Atlantic salmon, bull-rout and longhorn sculpin. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Fish Salmon Waters where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give August about 16°C and February about -5°C. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Averages suggest open water from about late April through to roughly late December. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. At Salmon Waters the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Sort the permit out before you load the car. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Metcalfe Pond at 1.3 km is the sensible second choice. Treat Salmon Waters as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.