Range Pond Maine Forsale

One cold winter day we were snowmobiling on Middle Range Pond in Poland Spring Maine. Riding slowly along the shore line just to see the camps and homes on the lake. On the west shore we saw a camp that was for sale. I mean, it was a camp on posts just to keep it up off the ground. A place that a person would only use in the summer time.

We drove up off the lake on our snowmobiles and up to the road that went to the camp. Wanted to see how far it was to get to the camp from a tarred main road. Everything looked good so we wrote down the telephone number on the for sale sign. As soon as we got home, we called and asked about seeing the camp. We made an appointment with the realtor. I do not remember what day it was, but I can tell you how cold it was. We met on the road that went to the camp. The snow was not plowed and we had to walk in. The snow was about 6 inches deep, maybe deeper if the snow was not frozen. Finally got to the door to get in the camp. Put the key in the lock and found that the door was hard to open. Finally got in, you think it was cold outside, it was colder inside the camp. Looked all around inside and it was nothing special, just nice and it had a nice lake out front. The realtor told us how much the owner wanted for it and we said, we will take it. $27,000 The camp was really in a forest in the back between the road, but the front was real nice to the lake.

At the time, we had a Cape Cod in Auburn Maine. Nothing special, just a home we got a good deal on and fixed up for resale. We had owned that for about 4 1/2 years and almost doubled our money on that. Well, we put that up for sale hoping that it would sell before we had to buy the camp on the lake.

Well our Cape Cod sold, what do we do now. House full of furniture and the camp we were going to buy was already furnished with camp furniture. Well we stored the Cape Cod furniture. It is now June and can move into the camp. Called the place we had the furniture stored and they delivered the Cape Cod furniture. We did get all the furniture in the camp but had two or three of the same kinds of furniture. We did find people to give furniture to.

First thing we found out was we had to get a permit to live in this camp year around. I mean it had no water well, it had no foundation and all it had for heat was a wood stove. We went to the town office and told them we were going to put a cement block foundation. The town of Poland okayed that so we rented a backhoe and started digging around it and found a person to lay the blocks. Everything came out good and then we started to work on the water well. Brother dug here and there with his back hoe and finally found some water. Hooked everything up and invited friends over, time to time to help with this and that.

Fall is here and starting to get cold. We had one of them old oil burning pot belled stoves and hooked that up. Found that the windows in the camp were just not enough to keep the cold out with the heat we had. I mean we have been spending money and was watching where we had to spend more money. We hooked the old wood stove backup and got some fire wood and even went to burning coal too. I want to tell you, we were not too cold after burning coal and wood. We really wanted to clear the land in the back so we had wood to burn from there. We also would look for places where the power company and storm damage next to the roads.

Well, we got thru our first winter and slowly started fixing up things like insulating walls and attic, new siding, septic system, roofing, oil fired base board heat. Now we have been here for 27 years. New floors, washer and dryer, gas fired back up fire place just incase the power goes out or the oil fired furnace breaks down. In and outside gardens and a basement.

I mean, rich people pay millions for a toy and this is all that it has to be for them. A year around on the lake, with two bed rooms, bath, panoramic lake view. A place that you can use to go boating and fishing all year around. Ski slopes not too far away and snowmobile right out of your yard.

Fishes: here we go, lake trout, brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, small mouth bass, large mouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, pickerel, hornpout, smelt, eel, white sucker, Sunfish.

The name of these important fishing lakes are in heavily populated Cumberland and Androscoggin Counties, is pronounced "rang"

Upper and Middle Range offer an excellent variety of warm water species. The rocky shores harbor good numbers of small mouths, and catches of thirty per day have been recorded. Both Middle and Upper have larger than average white perch. They can be caught on calm summer evenings, using silver spinners and worms or number 6 marabou streamers. The marsh on the south end of Middle Range yields good pickerel catches, especially on over cast days. Middle Range has a native population of togue, however, Middle Range and Upper Range are heavily fished thru the ice, and there aren't many lake trout to go around. Lower has little to offer other than pickerel, and there is a 10 horse power limit on that pond. Ice will be out by April 20th. The shore lines are heavily developed here. The hills are covered with hardwoods.

Water	Town	Bass	Public Access
Lower Range Pond	Poland	S&L Bass	state park (no motors greater than 10hp)
Middle Range Pond	Poland	S&L Bass	Flying Lobster Restaurant
Upper Range Pond	Poland	S&L Bass	State Ramp at Causeway Upper Range Pond

Edward Nadeau caught this 3.3 lb. rainbow trout on
Middle Range Pond in Poland on January 9, 2005.

Tyler Morse (4.2 lb. brown trout), David Gray (4.4 lb. brown trout),
and Mason Lovett (2.7 lb. rainbow trout), all caught on
Middle Range Pond in Poland on January 9, 2005.