Durepo Pond Fishing in Aroostook County, Maine

• Overview

  In Maine, Durepo Pond belongs to Aroostook County. The surface lies 620 feet up. The water covers some 59 acres, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Some 2.9 miles away sits Limestone, the nearest settlement. It is 158 miles to Lévis, the nearest city. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Durepo Pond

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Inflow corners move water, and moving water gathers fish. The arms fish better than the open middle whenever the water is up. Records held for Aroostook County cover Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, lake whitefish and Arctic charr. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Durepo Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 64°F at the top of summer and 8°F at the bottom of winter. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Winter locks it down, and late April brings it back. Break-up sits around late April on average, with the water closing again about late November. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. It holds true on Durepo Pond more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Noyes Pond sits 1.4 miles off and takes the overflow. Where Durepo Pond is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.