Snelgroves Pond in Port Blandford: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Look for Snelgroves Pond in the Port Blandford part of Newfoundland and Labrador. The sea is 27 km distant. It covers about 5 hectares, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Most waters listed here for Port Blandford are larger. Start from Clarenville-Shoal Harbour, 38 km down the road. Beyond it, Clarenville at 39 km and Glovertown at 58 km. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Snelgroves Pond

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. County-wide records name Atlantic salmon, brook trout and bull-rout. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Snelgroves Pond responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 16°C and February about -8°C. Winter shuts the surface down for months. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Open water usually runs from late April until about early December. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Snelgroves Pond runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Broom Pond is 1.9 km distant. Nothing on Snelgroves Pond should be assumed from this page alone.