Mud Pond Fishing in Sussex County, New Jersey

• Overview

  Mud Pond belongs to Sussex County, New Jersey. Elevation runs to 1,263 feet. It covers about 23 acres, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. It sits higher than most water we list in New Jersey. The nearest town is Hamburg, 3.2 miles away. Vernon Center lies 3.4 miles off, Franklin another 3.5 miles. A border sits close enough to be relevant to the paperwork.

• Where to Fish on Mud Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Inflow corners move water, and moving water gathers fish. The old creek line under the surface is the feature worth finding. Public occurrence data for Sussex County names brook trout, brown trout and walleye. The county list is broader than any single water. The shape of Mud Pond rewards a slow walk along one bank.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 70°F at the top of summer and 24°F at the bottom of winter. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Count the season from break-up, usually late March. Climate averages put the opening at about late March and the closing near late December. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. The season on Mud Pond follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. A carry of 0.9 miles from the nearest parking is the price of fishing here. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Lake Wildwood, 0.9 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Mud Pond should be assumed from this page alone.