Long Pond Fishing Guide, Oxford County, Maine

• Overview

  In Maine, Long Pond belongs to Oxford County. The coast is 37 miles away. The water covers some 48 acres, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Around 1.5 miles of margin, front to back. Denmark sits 3.4 miles from here and is the nearest stop. Brownfield is 5 miles away, with Fryeburg at 6.3 miles. A county boundary sits nearby, which can matter for local access rules.

• Where to Fish on Long Pond

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Oxford County list brown trout, Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout and smallmouth bass. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Anyone new to Long Pond should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 68°F in July and bottom out at 17°F in January. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around early April. The season between ice runs from about early April to mid December. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Anyone fishing Long Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. The nearest mapped parking is half a mile away, so the last stretch is on foot. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Beaver Pond is 1.7 miles distant. Check the current arrangement for Long Pond.