Hour Pond Fishing in Warren County, New York

• Overview

  You will find Hour Pond in Warren County, New York. It sits at 2,096 feet above sea level. The water covers some 40 acres, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. The full circuit measures close to 1.0 miles on foot. By elevation it is in the upper part of our New York listings. The nearest place of any size is Warrensburg, 24 miles away. Hadley is 31 miles and Lake Luzerne 31 miles. The nearest edge is a long way off, so local rules apply throughout.

• Where to Fish on Hour Pond

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Warren County include brown trout, brook trout, pumpkinseed, yellow perch and white sucker. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Treat Hour Pond as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 64°F for July and 14°F for January. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around mid April. In an average year the thaw lands around mid April and the freeze near early December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. It holds true on Hour Pond more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  We hold no note on access for this one. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Nothing is mapped in the way of a ramp or car park within a short radius. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Peaked Mountain Pond, 1.7 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Hour Pond as something to verify.