Granger Pond Fishing Guide, Oxford County, Maine

• Overview

  You will find Granger Pond in Oxford County, Maine. It sits 33 miles in from the sea. It runs to roughly 125 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. With about 2.7 miles of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Denmark is the closest place, 1.2 miles off. The big place round here is Manchester, 75 miles distant. The county edge is within a short distance of the bank.

• Where to Fish on Granger Pond

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Survey and observation records for Oxford County include brown trout, Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout and smallmouth bass. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. At Granger Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 68°F; the cold one sits at 17°F. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Count the season from break-up, usually early April. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early April and starts locking again about mid December. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Granger Pond runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Boats go in at Granger Pond Boat Launch, roughly half a mile from the water. A jetty or pier is mapped about half a mile from here. A camping area sits within half a mile of here. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Walden Pond, 1.1 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Where Granger Pond is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.