Cranberry Pond near Addison: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Set in Steuben County, Cranberry Pond is a New York water. What surrounds it is pine and birch. Surface area runs to about 21 acres — small enough to read in one session. The nearest town is Addison, 6.6 miles away. Gang Mills is 9.9 miles and Bath 11 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications. The setting is plain rather than dramatic, and it fishes well for it.

• Where to Fish on Cranberry Pond

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public occurrence data for Steuben County names brown trout, white sucker and tessellated darter. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Treat Cranberry Pond as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 67°F in July and bottom out at 22°F in January. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early April. Open water usually runs from early April until about mid December. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. That is the shape of the year on Cranberry Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Access points are not mapped for this water, which suits people who like quiet. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. If the gate is shut, Duck Pond at 0.7 miles is the nearest alternative. Ask locally about Cranberry Pond if anything is unclear.