Chittenden Pond Fishing Guide, Franklin County, Maine

• Overview

  You will find Chittenden Pond in Franklin County, Maine. The bank is 1,614 feet above sea level. Surface area runs to about 3 acres — small enough to read in one session. Most waters listed here for Franklin County are larger. You are 28 miles from Kingfield. Sherbrooke sits 70 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Chittenden Pond

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Species logged across Franklin County include Atlantic salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout and rainbow smelt. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Fish Chittenden Pond to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 63°F; by January the average is down near 10°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about late April. Climate averages put the opening at about late April and the closing near late November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. At Chittenden Pond the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Ask in the nearest town if you are unsure. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Everett Pond is 0.4 miles distant. What applies at Chittenden Pond may have changed since it was mapped.