Epoxy

Wilson Pond

North Monmouth, Maine, USA

Also known as North Monmouth, Wayne, Winthrop

In 1942 the local fish and game club seined Wilson Pond to get the white perch out of it. Brown trout went in the following year.

The trout have to be restocked every year. The state's survey says the pond has no spawning or nursery habitat for them, and that brown trout were chosen in the first place because they tolerate marginal water quality better than other coldwater fish.

Meanwhile the warmwater fish nobody stocked are doing fine. Bass and perch populations are natural and abundant. The survey's main concern is northern pike, which have turned up in Berry Pond and are expected to make their own way into Wilson.

North Monmouth exists because of the pond. The village built up around its outlet, where the fall of water ran lumber, grist and woolen mills.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Maple
Colour: Ocean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: February 2026

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

How this one was made

Maple with blue for the water and black for the type, the pin and the arrow. The board gets flooded and sanded flush, so pigment sits against the whole face, and maple is the least forgiving wood we use for that. It takes color into open grain, and there is no sanding a stain back out of a sixteenth of an inch. Wilson is long and narrow with the shoreline crowding in through the middle third, which is where the channels get tight enough to hold air, and the pin sits on its own out in the bare wood so it takes a dam of its own.