Hillside Park Pond is a lake in New Castle County, Delaware.
Hillside Park Pond is an urban New Castle County fishing pond rather than a rural millpond. For Hillside Park Pond, exact physical figures remain limited; the safest description is the mapped water type and location rather than an estimated size.
Hillside Park Pond belongs to Delaware's small-pond angling program. At Hillside Park Pond, barbless hooks are required and fishing is catch-and-release except for the separate trout rule at Newton Pond.
At Hillside Park 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 Hillside Park Pond can be caught with a piece of worm, cricket or tiny jig under a small float, especially where shade meets vegetation.
Work one shoreline carefully and let the first bite decide whether to stay shallow or move toward the middle. Artificial structures made from materials such as Christmas trees, wood and PVC provide fish cover in Hillside Park Pond and other Delaware small managed ponds.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.