Round Pond Fishing Guide, Piscataquis County, Maine

• Overview

  Round Pond stands in Piscataquis County, Maine. The setting is lake country bush. Roughly 449 acres of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. With 4.3 miles or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. Few waters listed in Piscataquis County are bigger. Some 44 miles away sits Linière, the nearest settlement. Further out sit Saint-Côme--Linière (47 miles) and Saint-Pamphile (51 miles). Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Round Pond

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Survey and observation records for Piscataquis County include Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, brown trout and Arctic charr. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Anyone new to Round Pond should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 9°F in January up to 64°F in July. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough late April. In an average year the thaw lands around late April and the freeze near late November. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Anyone fishing Round Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. The nearest alternative is Daggett Pond, 1.8 miles out. What applies at Round Pond may have changed since it was mapped.