Peabody Pond is shaped like a wide “V” pointed toward the northwest. Paddle the complete shoreline, and you’d cover about six miles. The pond is circled by low ridges and mountains.
Peabody Pond was named for Captain John Peabody, one of the first settlers in the South Bridgton area.
A rocky public boat launch located on the southern end of Peabody Pond, near the outlet.
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Water Quality Monitoring Summary
Winter Water Monitoring Summary2025-2026 data will be available in May
High Resolution Temp. Monitoring Summary2025 data coming soon
High Resolution Temperature Monitoring Methods and Reading Graphs
Algae Monitoring Summary2025 data coming soon
LEA also has active Courtesy Boat Inspection and LakeSmart programs on Peabody Pond and offers technical assistance to landowners through Clean Lake Check Ups.
Peabody Pond is well suited for both warmwater and coldwater fish. Its rocky shorelines and protected coves provide good habitat for bass, yellow perch and chain pickerel. The deep chasm that runs through the center of the pond stays cool during the summer months, giving landlocked salmon, brook trout and lake trout refuge from the warmer waters above. Dissolved oxygen depletion does limit some of this habitat in late summer. The Northwest River, which is the outlet for Peabody Pond, also is a good spawning ground for wild landlocked salmon. Other fish in the pond include hornpout, rainbow smelt, white sucker, fallfish, common shiner, pearl dace, banded killifish and pumpkinseed sunfish.
General fishing laws apply, except: CI (Closed to ice fishing), except that cusk fishing is permitted through the ice from sunset to sunrise with 5 lines. S-2 (Closed to the taking of smelts, except by hook and line), S-3 (Direct tributaries closed to the taking of smelts). Open to open water fishing October 1 – December 31: ALO (Artificial lures only), S-7 (All trout, landlocked salmon, and togue caught must be released alive at once). From January 1 – March 31: All salmon caught while open water fishing must be released immediately without removal from the water.
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