Echo Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Largemouth Bass

Lake · Maine · Fayette, 1.6 mi away

Echo Lake, Maine: Atlantic Salmon. 91.1% of it is 50 feet deep or less. 2 ramps and launches. 117 ft at the deepest measured point. 30,316 fish stocked since 2010.

Echo Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Largemouth Bass 1

Lake

Surface area: 1,137 acres1.8 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 117 ftdeep
Average depth: 24.7 ft
Fish species: 4
Access points: 2
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Fayette1.6 mi

Echo Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Largemouth Bass

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Echo Lake — Mount Vernon.

The lake

Echo Lake covers 1,137 acres in Maine, across Kennebec County. It is a lake: 91.1% of it is 50 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 117 feet (35.7 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Depth: down to 117 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 117 ft (35.7 m). 91.1% of the water is 50 feet or shallower. We hold 146 depth contours for this water, drawn from 229 soundings.

Beech Cliff Loop, Echo Lake (a424f572-172a-427d-bf01-a3bd9f090687).jpg — Victoria Stauffenberg · Public domain

0–10 ft: 31.7% of the water
10–20 ft: 27.5% of the water
20–30 ft: 19.8% of the water
30–40 ft: 7% of the water
40–50 ft: 5.1% of the water
50–60 ft: 3.9% of the water
60–70 ft: 1.9% of the water
70–80 ft: 1.5% of the water
80–90 ft: 0.9% of the water
90–100 ft: 0.6% of the water

Stocking: 30,316 fish, 2010–2026

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 30,316 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2026.

Brook Trout: 18,486 in 2010–2026

3 more species on the stocking list.

Beech Cliff Loop, Echo Lake (a8dc4ce5-704d-4d8a-9581-f5b62d2ab168).jpg — Victoria Stauffenberg · Public domain

4 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

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

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

Echo Lake — Mount Vernon — restrooms. Mount Vernon, State.
Taylor Pond — Mount Vernon — Mount Vernon, State.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Beech Cliff Loop, Echo Lake (54a2ecb5-cfce-4c6a-8b10-94e771e2e05a).jpg — Victoria Stauffenberg · Public domain

What is hard here

Only 2 public ramps are 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.