Fishing Kidder Pond in Kennebec County, Maine

• Overview

  Kidder Pond lies in Kennebec County, Maine. The sea is 36 miles distant. Surface area is around 31 acres, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Start from Rome, 4.2 miles down the road. Mount Vernon is 5 miles and New Sharon 5.7 miles. Other water within reach: McIntire Pond a touch under 1 mile, Boody Pond at 1.1 miles, Round Pond a touch under 1.4 miles, Watson Pond at 1.4 miles and Kimball Pond a touch under 1.8 miles. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Kidder Pond

  Depth is unknown to us, and the shoreline is the better guide. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Records held for Kennebec County cover brown trout, Atlantic salmon, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Read Kidder Pond for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 67°F; the cold one sits at 16°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Ice clears near mid April and comes back about early December in a typical year. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. It holds true on Kidder Pond more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Failing this one, try McIntire Pond, 1 mile away. Rules at Kidder Pond are worth checking on the day.