Sawyer Pond, Maine: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Sawyer Pond is one of the Piscataquis County listings for Maine. It sits at 1,243 feet above sea level. With some 72 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Greenville is the closest place, 2.1 miles off. After that come Sangerville at 24 miles and Dover-Foxcroft at 26 miles. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Sawyer Pond

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Species logged across Piscataquis County include Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt and brook trout. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Sawyer Pond gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 64°F at the top of summer and 11°F at the bottom of winter. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Once it clears, about late April, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about early December. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Plan any trip to Sawyer Pond around it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. 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 is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. For a change of water, Lower Wilson Pond is 1.6 miles distant. What applies at Sawyer Pond may have changed since it was mapped.