Mansell Pond Fishing in Penobscot County, Maine

• Overview

  Mansell Pond is a Penobscot County water, in Maine. What surrounds it is mixed forest. Small at around 6 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. On size it sits at the modest end of our Penobscot County list. The town to know is Greenbush, 5 miles out. Sherbrooke is the closest city, 156 miles away. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Mansell Pond

  The records we hold are silent on depth, so plan to find it yourself. 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. County-wide records name Atlantic salmon, brown trout and smallmouth bass. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Take Mansell Pond a stretch at a time.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 16°F to 68°F. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid April. Expect the water usable from around mid April until roughly early December. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. It holds true on Mansell Pond more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Holland Pond is 0.8 miles distant. Ask locally about Mansell Pond if anything is unclear.