Long Pond, Maine: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Look for Long Pond in the Somerset County part of Maine. It lies 1,201 feet above sea level. Surface area runs to about 15 acres — small enough to read in one session. You are 18 miles from Greenville. Further out sit Kingfield (36 miles) and Sangerville (36 miles). The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Long Pond

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Public occurrence data for Somerset County names Atlantic salmon, brown trout and smallmouth bass. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Fish Long Pond where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 64°F and January at 10°F. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly late April. Ice clears near late April and comes back about late November in a typical year. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. Plan around that when you fish Long Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Flatiron Pond at 0.7 miles is the sensible second choice. Where Long Pond is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.