Clover Hill Pond in Crow Wing County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Crow Wing County, Clover Hill Pond is a Minnesota water. Height above sea level is 1,227 feet. About 4 acres of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. On size it sits at the modest end of our Crow Wing County list. The town to know is Baxter, 9.9 miles out. The nearest city of size is Minneapolis, 97 miles away. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Clover Hill Pond

  Depth is unmeasured here, so let the shoreline guide you. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Crow Wing County include largemouth bass, bluegill, yellow perch, northern pike and pumpkinseed. The list covers the county rather than this water alone, so treat it as a guide. At Clover Hill Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 8°F to 69°F. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Break-up sits around mid April on average, with the water closing again about late November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. The season on Clover Hill Pond follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Rules for this water may differ from the county norm. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Gibson Lake, 1.2 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Clover Hill Pond as something to verify.