View along the southern shoreline of Adams Pond
Adams Pond is located in the town of Bridgton (see The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer map 4 B4). This delightful small pond is located next to Route 107 off Adams Pond Road. Access to the pond is via its small outlet which runs underneath Adams Pond Road. Only hand-carried craft can be launched from this point. Adams Pond is completely wooded on its southern and western shoreline. Adams Pond Road, which runs along the eastern shore of the pond, has a handful of houses. Much of the northern shoreline is occupied by Camp Pondicherry, a girl scout facility. The pond covers 45 acres and has a maximum depth of 51 ft and a mean depth of 20 ft. The bottom consists of clean sand interspersed with boulders and cobbles. The water is absolutely crystal clear, with visibility down to 25 ft! Click here for a depth map and more fisheries information.
Adams Pond in the shade
The quality of the largemouth bass habitat along the shoreline is marginal at best. The aquatic vegetation is very sparse, consisting mostly of tiny lilypads and pipewort. Both are a constant bother because lures get fouled up by the delicate stems of these plants. Sunken trees and branches (particularly along the southern shoreline) provide several good hiding spots for bass.
General view across Adams Pond
I start fishing Adams Pond at 5:30 pm. The sky is a deep blue azure, the sun is starting to set, and the wind is light. I cast a 5” soft stickbait in the sparse aquatic vegetation by the shoreline but find no takers. Surprisingly, I also get no bites when I drop my stickbait around sunken trees and branches. This type of habitat should act as a “bass magnet” given the lack of other structure. I finally hook into a 10” smallmouth bass after 45 minutes of hard fishing. Further ahead, I notice that the shoreline provides more hiding spots made up of overhanging bushes, an occasional boulder, and tree branches. I toss my soft stickbait in the shallow water underneath the overhanging bushes against the shore and catch two (small) largemouth bass. Evening is falling and I need to move on. The lack of shoreline structure makes this pond ideal for deep bass fishing techniques such as using drop shots, plastic crayfish, or Carolina-rigged worms.
The results: I catch one tiny smallmouth bass and two largemouth bass (largest = 13”) in two hours of fishing.
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I’m going to check it out next week.
I’ve fished here for years. Occasionally a decent size bass are caught but lack of forage fish makes this pond a bass fishery. There are brook trout available with dry flies taking the most fish early in the season. Then they go DEEP.