Cranberry Pond Fishing Guide, Piscataquis County, Maine

• Overview

  Cranberry Pond sits in Piscataquis County, out in Maine. The surface lies 627 feet up. At 5 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Most waters listed here for Piscataquis County are larger. Supplies mean a trip to Millinocket, 15 miles off. For a city, Lévis is 127 miles off. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Cranberry Pond

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Piscataquis County records list Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, brown trout and Arctic charr among the fish reported. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. On Cranberry Pond the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 10°F in January up to 64°F in July. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. From about late April to around late November, expect open water on the long-run figures. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Cranberry Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Rocky Pond, 0.4 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. What applies at Cranberry Pond may have changed since it was mapped.