Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.
Nelson Pond is a lake or reservoir in Vermont, listed as Special-regulation trout water by Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department / Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board.
1 shop nearby are listed here.
Nelson Pond is a lake or reservoir in Vermont.
No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Nelson Pond or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Nelson Pond
Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.
Nothing on this page grants or implies access.
Shops and guides within 40 miles
Map of Nelson Pond: gauges, shops and guides
Map of Nelson Pond, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.
Restrooms within 2 miles of Nelson Pond in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.
No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.
Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.
Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Kettle PondMooselookmeguntic Lake from Oquossoc, Maine. Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Kettle Pond.
Vermont · about 10 mi
Catch and releaseRepresentative photo · not Dog RiverThe Winooski River falls between Winooski and Burlington, Vermont. Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Dog River.
Vermont · about 11 mi
Special-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not East Long PondRangeley Lake, Maine. Photo: Manuel Velazquez, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not East Long Pond.
Vermont · about 12 mi
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Osmore PondLake Jocassee from a canoe, South Carolina. Photo: TimothyJ from Atlanta, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Osmore Pond.
Vermont · about 12 mi
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Little RiverThe falls on Otter Creek at Vergennes, Vermont. Photo: Ahale (English Wikipedia), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little River.
Vermont · about 13 mi
Special-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Nichols PondLake Greenwood, South Carolina. Photo: JCMLuis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Nichols Pond.
Vermont · about 13 mi
Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.
Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout.
On the Trout and salmon two-fish aggregate lakes (10 App. V.S.A. §122, 7.6(e)) list (Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department / Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board, read 2026-10-16). All waters with this designation
Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.
Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.
No guide within 40 miles yet.
The hatch and season chart for this water's region.
8 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.
Blue Quill (April) · Hendrickson (April) · Quill Gordon (April) · Green drake (May) · Mayflies (best hatches) (May) · Mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (June to September) · and 2 more on the chart
None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.
No hub within 40 miles
A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.
9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes
Open the checklistChironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on stillwater
Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Nelson Pond.
No stories from here yet.
Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.
A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.
Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Nelson Pond” (lake) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Kettle PondMooselookmeguntic Lake from Oquossoc, Maine. Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Kettle Pond.
Vermont · about 10 mi
Catch and releaseRepresentative photo · not Dog RiverThe Winooski River falls between Winooski and Burlington, Vermont. Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Dog River.
Special-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not East Long PondRangeley Lake, Maine. Photo: Manuel Velazquez, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not East Long Pond.
Vermont · about 12 mi
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Osmore PondLake Jocassee from a canoe, South Carolina. Photo: TimothyJ from Atlanta, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Osmore Pond.
Vermont · about 12 mi
Trophy / quality trout waterRepresentative photo · not Little RiverThe falls on Otter Creek at Vergennes, Vermont. Photo: Ahale (English Wikipedia), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little River.
Special-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Nichols PondLake Greenwood, South Carolina. Photo: JCMLuis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Nichols Pond.
Vermont · about 13 mi
