Meister Pond is a seven-acre water in the Old Forge township — small enough that it doesn't show up on most recreational radar, but mapped and named, which usually means private access or a local put-in known to year-round residents more than seasonal visitors. No fish data on file with DEC, which tracks with ponds this size in working forest or residential zones where stocking and surveys don't justify the effort. Old Forge proper sits in a web of interconnected waters — the Fulton Chain, Nick's Lake, the Moose River — so a pond this size typically lives in the margins, either a backwater arm of a larger system or a landlocked basin tucked into second-growth pine and hardwood between camps.
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