Excellent bass fishing and NO rocks. A lot bigger than your ink and very little boat traffic. Great find.
Excellent bass fishing and NO rocks. A lot bigger than your ink and very little boat traffic. Great find.
Spaulding Pond, formed on the Salmon Falls River, was historically impacted by the unregulated discharge of industrial wastes. These discharges were regulated in the 1970’s, and sampling by MDEP in 1999 indicated that water quality has greatly improved. Water quality is currently considered very good for resident warmwater fisheries, however, the pond does not thermally stratify in the summer, providing no coldwater habitat for trout. Competition and predation from existing populations of warmwater fish further diminish the opportunity to manage for coldwater fish.
Landlocked alewives were introduced into Great East Lake in 1972, and have subsequently established in other lakes lower in the Salmon Falls Drainage, including Milton Three Ponds. It is also likely that landlocked alewives are present in Spaulding Pond. In addition, a walleye was caught by a winter angler in 2002. This isolated fish presumably migrated from Lovell Pond in New Hampshire, where walleyes were stocked in the early 1990’s.
Access is restricted to permissive trespass. There is a need to develop public boat access to this water.