Fishing Rankin Pond in Essex County, New York

• Overview

  You will find Rankin Pond in Essex County, New York. The ground round it is lake country bush. The water measures roughly 16 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. Start from Warrensburg, 27 miles down the road. Beyond it, North Elba at 28 miles and Ticonderoga at 30 miles. The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Rankin Pond

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Essex County names brown trout, brook trout, white sucker and pumpkinseed. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Treat Rankin Pond as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 64°F at the top of summer and 15°F at the bottom of winter. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. 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 early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Plan around that when you fish Rankin Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Expect a half a mile walk in from where the car goes. You can camp 0.9 miles off, which suits an early start. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. For a change of water, Little Rankin Pond is 0.5 miles distant. Nothing on Rankin Pond should be assumed from this page alone.