Fishing Baker Pond in Piscataquis County, Maine

• Overview

  Baker Pond stands in Piscataquis County, Maine. What surrounds it is lake country bush. At 10 acres 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 Piscataquis County list. Start from Greenville, 10 miles down the road. Brownville lies 24 miles off, Sangerville another 26 miles. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Baker Pond

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Reported across Piscataquis County: Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, brown trout and Arctic charr. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Baker Pond the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 63°F and January reads 10°F. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. After late April the shallows warm and the fish move up. The water is typically free of ice between late April and late November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Anyone fishing Baker Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. Mapping shows a campsite some 140 yards from the water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Some banks are open only from a marked point. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lost Pond, 0.8 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Baker Pond for certain.