Skull Pond Fishing Guide, Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Set in Grand Falls-Windsor, Skull Pond is a Newfoundland and Labrador water. The setting is lake country bush. It runs to roughly 61 hectares — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With 6.3 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. It is a small entry by Grand Falls-Windsor standards. Grand Falls-Windsor sits 42 km from here and is the nearest stop. Springdale follows at 53 km, then Bishop's Falls at 54 km. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Skull Pond

  Depth figures are not published for this one. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Grand Falls-Windsor cover Atlantic salmon, American eel, brook trout and rainbow smelt. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. The near bank of Skull Pond is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 16°C on average, February about -10°C. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Ice-out usually falls in early May, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Expect the water usable from around early May until roughly early December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Skull Pond fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Constance Lake is 5.2 km distant. Confirm before you fish Skull Pond.