AREC Pond is a lake in Kent County, Delaware.
AREC Pond is a half-acre teaching water at Delaware's Aquatic Resource Education Center complex near Smyrna. Verified measurements give AREC Pond a surface area of 0.5 acres.
AREC Pond belongs to Delaware's small-pond angling program. At AREC Pond, barbless hooks are required and fishing is catch-and-release except for the separate trout rule at Newton Pond.
At AREC Pond, a weightless worm and small jig are dependable around wood, while a frog or weedless swimbait makes sense when surface vegetation thickens. Bluegill in AREC Pond can be caught with a piece of worm, cricket or tiny jig under a small float, especially where shade meets vegetation.
Keep the tackle simple and compare two kinds of cover rather than changing location after every cast. Artificial structures made from materials such as Christmas trees, wood and PVC provide fish cover in AREC Pond and other Delaware small managed ponds.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.