Beaver Pond in Somerset County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Somerset County, Maine, this is Beaver Pond. The surface lies 1,302 feet up. Surface area runs to about 10 acres — small enough to read in one session. It is one of the smaller waters we list in Somerset County. Supplies mean a trip to Linière, 19 miles off. Lévis sits 85 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Beaver Pond

  Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Public occurrence data for Somerset County names Atlantic salmon, brown trout, smallmouth bass and rainbow smelt. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Beaver Pond that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-run averages give July about 64°F and January about 9°F. The year runs cold to warm and back, with clear transitions. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. That shapes the year on Beaver Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. The nearest alternative is Trickey Ponds, 2.1 miles out. Treat Beaver Pond as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.