Miles Pond Fishing near Lunenburg, Vermont

• Overview

  In Vermont, Miles Pond falls inside Essex County. Everything around it is pine and birch. It runs to roughly 221 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Shoreline comes to about 3.0 miles, small enough to learn in a day. Lunenburg sits 6.5 miles from the bank. Sherbrooke is the closest city, 66 miles away. The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Miles Pond

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. The old creek line under the surface is the feature worth finding. Draw-down through summer strips the margins, so follow the water out. Essex County records list rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout and white sucker among the fish reported. Take it as the county picture rather than a promise for this water. At Miles Pond the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 66°F and January near 14°F. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough mid April. Open water usually runs from mid April until about early December. May into June fishes hardest, and September gives a second good stretch before the lid returns. Plan around that when you fish Miles Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Check locally before you travel, because a wasted drive is a long one. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Moore Reservoir, 3.9 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Miles Pond in what we hold.