Great Herring Pond fishing: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed

Lake · Massachusetts · Cedarville, 0.9 mi away

Great Herring Pond, Massachusetts: Yellow Perch. 92.6% of it is 33 feet deep or less. 1 trailer ramp. At least 45 ft deep.

Great Herring Pond fishing: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed 1

Lake

Surface area: 414 acres0.6 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 45 ftdeep
Average depth: 20 ftpublished figure, LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0 (no bottom map)
Fish species: 6
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Cedarville0.9 mi

Great Herring Pond fishing: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed

Target species: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Great Herring Pond, 1 lane.

The lake

Great Herring Pond covers 414 acres in Massachusetts, across Plymouth County. It is a lake: 92.6% of it is 33 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 45 feet (13.7 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 45 ft (13.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.6% of the water is 33 feet or shallower. We hold 42 depth contour lines for this water.

Great Herring Pond, Cedarville MA.jpg — John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0

0–3 ft: 3.5% of the water
3–6 ft: 7.2% of the water
6–9 ft: 7.7% of the water
9–12 ft: 8.4% of the water
12–15 ft: 6.4% of the water
15–18 ft: 6.2% of the water
18–21 ft: 7% of the water
21–24 ft: 7.3% of the water
24–27 ft: 8.1% of the water
27–30 ft: 11% of the water
30–33 ft: 19.8% of the water
33–36 ft: 6.5% of the water
36–39 ft: 0.9% of the water

2 target fish, led by Yellow Perch

Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.

Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Brown Bullhead, Alewife, Banded Killifish.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Great Herring Pond — 1 lane. Bourne, DFW.

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 61°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2022–2023.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

MassWildlife — MassWildlife: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.