Sewells Pond Fishing in Crow Wing County, Minnesota

• Overview

  You will find Sewells Pond in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Everything around it is pine and birch. At 13 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Crow Wing County list. Supplies mean a trip to Brainerd, 9.5 miles off. Minneapolis sits 97 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Sewells Pond

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Open biodiversity records for Crow Wing County list largemouth bass, bluegill, yellow perch and northern pike. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Fish Sewells Pond where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 69°F and January at 8°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. Break-up comes around mid April, and the run that follows is short and strong. Break-up sits around mid April on average, with the water closing again about late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. The season on Sewells Pond rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Pond Lake at 1.2 miles is the sensible second choice. Nothing here settles the position at Sewells Pond for certain.