Tarbox Pond Fishing Guide, Piscataquis County, Maine

• Overview

  You will find Tarbox Pond in Piscataquis County, Maine. It sits in rolling bush. It measures about 53 acres, which is a comfortable size for bank fishing. With about 1.1 miles of edge, you can try several depths in one session. Supplies mean a trip to Linière, 44 miles off. It is 89 miles to Lévis, the nearest city. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Tarbox Pond

  Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Open biodiversity records for Piscataquis County list Atlantic salmon, rainbow smelt, brook trout, brown trout and Arctic charr. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. On Tarbox Pond the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 9°F to 64°F. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Break-up sits around late April on average, with the water closing again about late November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. The season on Tarbox Pond rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. 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. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Should this one be busy, Daggett Pond is 2.5 miles off. Rules at Tarbox Pond are worth checking on the day.