Damariscotta Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass

Damariscotta Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Damariscotta Lake — Jefferson.

The lake

Damariscotta Lake covers 4,552 acres in Maine, across Lincoln County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 116 feet (35.4 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Depth: down to 116 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 116 ft (35.4 m). We hold 36 depth contours for this water, drawn from 196 soundings.

• 0–10 ft: 54.9% of the surveyed bottom
• 10–20 ft: 20.7% of the surveyed bottom
• 20–30 ft: 7.2% of the surveyed bottom
• 30–40 ft: 5.3% of the surveyed bottom
• 40–50 ft: 4.1% of the surveyed bottom
• 50–60 ft: 4.3% of the surveyed bottom
• 60–70 ft: 2.5% of the surveyed bottom
• 70–80 ft: 0.4% of the surveyed bottom
• 80–90 ft: 0.2% of the surveyed bottom
• 90–100 ft: 0.2% of the surveyed bottom
• 100–110 ft: 0.2% of the surveyed bottom

Stocking: 29,446 fish, 2010–2026

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 29,446 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2026.

• Brown Trout: 22,350 in 2010–2025

2 more species on the stocking list.

4 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

• Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
• Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
• Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
• Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

• Damariscotta Lake — Jefferson — Jefferson, 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.