Fishing Wood Chisel Pond in Admirals Beach, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Overview

  Admirals Beach, Newfoundland and Labrador, is where Wood Chisel Pond sits. Around the bank it is pine and birch. At 6 hectares it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Admirals Beach list. Placentia lies 32 km from the water. Whitbourne is 59 km and Holyrood 75 km. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Wood Chisel Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Across Admirals Beach, recorded fish include Atlantic cod, American eel and grubby. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Read Wood Chisel Pond for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put August at about 16°C and February near -5°C. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about late December. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. Plan around that when you fish Wood Chisel Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. No built facilities appear in mapping around this water. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. If the gate is shut, Three Necked Pond at 2.7 km is the nearest alternative. Where Wood Chisel Pond is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.