Robertson Mill Pond Preserve - Fishing and some History

 Robertson Mill Pond 

Robertson Mill Pond is a 60 acre mill pond located on Buffalo creek near the town of Wendell , NC     This millpond on Buffalo Creek was impounded sometime around 1820  and has survivied countless hurricanes.  Buffalo Creek is a tributary of the Little river in Johnston County and this millpond is located on mile 25 of Buffalo creek.   This mill pond is now an 85 acre Wake County park and sees lots and lots of visitors.  This is a great place to paddle and see a Bald Cypress forest.   If you plan on fishing this millpond  I would suggest during the months of April through September to fish it on a weekday.     ( I will have a fishing video and a Drone video located at the bottom of this article ) and fishing info towards the bottom as well. 

Park hours are from 8am till sunset 7 days a week and the park is closed on Thanksgiving day, Christmas eve, Christmas day and New Years so this Mill pond park provides 361 days of paddling pleasure!  The park facility has 18 parking places, several places for vehicles with canoe/kayak trailers and a small field for over flow parking.   No  permanent bathrooms are here but they do have a porta-jon bathroom.

Here is a picture of the parking area

This millpond is very shallow but depths near the dam approach 10 feet.   The millpond is NOT an open body of water .  Basically 90 percent of this millpond you are paddling through a very tight Bald Cypress forest. 

Here is an aerial photo of this Millpond and I have the mill ponds aprox banks traced. The brownish colored trees are the cypress trees. 

Here is a map of the padde trail  

Kayaks can be rented but to do that you need to connect with Tar River Life which handles the rentals. 

 Here are the boating rules for Robertson Mill Pond 

• Life jackets are required 
• Electric motors only, no gasoline motors
• All NC fishing & boating regulations apply
• There is no launch fee for your own kayak

Now for the fishing !

IMHO old millponds like this only provide so so fishing.  That being said they can provide good days are are still fun to fish. 

What species live in this millpond?

Here are the ones I know live here

Bluegill -  Bream to us southerners.

Red ear sunfish - Shellcrackers to us southerners

Chain Pickerel -  "Jack" to us southerners

Black Crappie

Flier

Bullhead Catfish

Channel Catfish

Largemouth Bass

Warmouth

Ones that I suspect live here

Redfin Pickerel

Yellow Perch

Pumpkinseed

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Flier 

Chain Pickerel  Aka Jack

Here is my fishing video on my YouTube Channel "Mack's Extreme River Fishing"

video to be added soon

Here is my drone footage taken on March 4th 2026. 

video to be added soon

Mack

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