Fishing Noyes Pond in Hancock County, Maine

• Overview

  Within Hancock County, Maine, you have Noyes Pond. Salt water lies 2.3 miles off. With some 26 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. The edge runs 0.9 miles or so, easy to work in an afternoon. Some 5.2 miles away sits Surry, the nearest settlement. Manchester is the closest city, 175 miles away. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Noyes Pond

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Hancock County records list Atlantic salmon, brown trout, alewife, rainbow smelt and blueback herring among the fish reported. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. Fish Noyes Pond to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 20°F in January and 67°F in July. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. The lid usually goes in early April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early April and starts locking again about mid December. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. It sets the rhythm of the year at Noyes Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Mapping shows parking within half a mile. The water borders Blue Hill Mountain, so expect the reserve rules to apply. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Salt Pond sits 3 miles off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Noyes Pond in what we hold.