Breese Pond in Rutland County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Breese Pond is a Rutland County water, in Vermont. Elevation runs to 568 feet. At 22 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. The closest town, Castleton, is 7.4 miles distant. Fair Haven is 8.6 miles away, with Brandon at 8.6 miles. Also worth knowing: Roach Pond at 0.5 miles, Black Pond sits 0.9 miles out, High Pond at 1 mile, Austin Pond sits 1.1 miles out and Halfmoon Lake at 1.5 miles. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Breese Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Reported across Rutland County: bluegill, brook trout and brown trout. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. Fish Breese Pond to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 18°F in January and 69°F in July. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early April. Climate averages put the opening at about early April and the closing near mid December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Anyone fishing Breese Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. There is a recognised fishing place here: Black Pond Access Point, 0.9 miles off. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Roach Pond sits 0.5 miles off and takes the overflow. For Breese Pond, the notice at the access point is the final word.