Round Pond Fishing in Franklin County, Maine

• Overview

  Set in Franklin County, Maine, this is Round Pond. Elevation runs to 1,263 feet. With some 38 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Lac-Mégantic is the closest town at 18 miles. Sherbrooke sits 58 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Round Pond

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Franklin County records list Atlantic salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout and rainbow smelt among the fish reported. Several of these carry legal protection or closed seasons; the rulebook comes before the rod. Round Pond gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 10°F to 63°F. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The lid usually goes in late April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The water is typically free of ice between late April and late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Anyone fishing Round Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Mapping shows a ramp about half a mile from the shore. There is camping recorded roughly half a mile off. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. If the gate is shut, Natanis Pond at 0.7 miles is the nearest alternative. Nothing here settles the position at Round Pond for certain.