Branch Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Yellow Perch
Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Branch Lake — Ellsworth.
The lake
Branch Lake covers 2,939 acres in Maine, across Hancock County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 124 feet (37.8 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth: down to 124 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 124 ft (37.8 m). We hold 41 depth contours for this water, drawn from 200 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 28.2% of the surveyed bottom
- 10–20 ft: 33% of the surveyed bottom
- 20–30 ft: 14.1% of the surveyed bottom
- 30–40 ft: 14.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 40–50 ft: 9.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 50–60 ft: 0.9% of the surveyed bottom
3 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Brown Trout.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Branch Lake — Ellsworth — restrooms. Ellsworth, State.
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Maine DEP — Maine DEP: depth soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
