Bishop Pond Fishing Guide, Aroostook County, Maine

• Overview

  This water sits in Aroostook County, Maine. It sits at 912 feet above sea level. About 15 acres of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. Presque Isle is the closest town at 32 miles. It is 118 miles to Lévis, the nearest city. Within easy reach: Sterling Pond some 1.3 miles off, Greenlaw Pond near enough 2.1 miles, Mud Pond some 2.1 miles off, Carr Pond near enough 2.4 miles and Clayton Lake some 4.5 miles off. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Bishop Pond

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. 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. Open biodiversity records for Aroostook County list Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, lake whitefish and Arctic charr. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. Bishop Pond gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 64°F at the top of summer and 7°F at the bottom of winter. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Averages suggest open water from about late April through to roughly late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. That is the shape of the year on Bishop Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing on record says whether the bank is open or closed. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. For a change of water, Sterling Pond is 1.3 miles distant. Nothing on Bishop Pond should be assumed from this page alone.