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Author:
AustinB
Date:
Jun 30, 2013
Subject:
Pond off rt.9 with crane in it?
Message:
I always drive by the pond with the crane sticking out of it headed northbound on rt.9 and wondered if there was access to it. Anyone ever fished it or know someone that has?
Author:
limeymotors
Date:
Jun 30, 2013
Message:
Copy and paste from Wikimapia This was NOT a quarry at one time. It is known locally as "CRANE POND", and is now located just after the Christian Lane on-ramp to Rte 9 NB. This stretch of highway was Rte 72 , until they extended Rte. 9 to hookup with Rte 84 in Farmington, and they renamed this section of Rte 72, to Rte 9. Back to Crane Pond. This used to be a clay pit, that was used by one of the numerous Brick Factories that used to exist in Berlin and New Britain. There are a series of ponds in this area, along both sides of the highway, that all used to be clay pits for the Brick Manufacturing Industry. Crane Pond filled up with water too quickly for them to get the crane out of the pit, and so another swimming/fishing hole was born. This one just happened to have a crane in it. All of the clay pits eventually filled up with water, and they would move down a few hundred yards and start digging again. We are now left with a series of fishing/swimming holes that are used all summer and some people ice skate on them in the winter months.
Author:
bowhunter095
Date:
Jun 30, 2013
Message:
I've fished that pond from shore before. I had someone drop me off on the side of the highway. Didn't catch anything although others have told me of some nice bass coming out of there. I have also heard of people getting boats in there somehow. If I had to take a guess I would think that they came in from the other side off of private property
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