Ellis Pond fishing: Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout
Target species: Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Salmon Lake — Belgrade.
The lake
Ellis Pond covers 1,141 acres in Maine, across Kennebec County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 52 feet (15.9 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
Stocking: 26,799 fish, 2010–2026
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 26,799 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2026.
- Brown Trout: 8,160 in 2010–2025
One more species on the stocking list.
Depth: down to 52 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 52 ft (15.9 m). We hold 90 depth contours for this water, drawn from 87 soundings.
- 0–3 ft: 11.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 3–6 ft: 11.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 6–9 ft: 9.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 9–12 ft: 7.7% of the surveyed bottom
- 12–15 ft: 9.1% of the surveyed bottom
- 15–18 ft: 8% of the surveyed bottom
- 18–21 ft: 7.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 21–24 ft: 7.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 24–27 ft: 9% of the surveyed bottom
- 27–30 ft: 4.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 30–33 ft: 9.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 33–36 ft: 2.7% of the surveyed bottom
- 36–39 ft: 2% of the surveyed bottom
2 target fish, led by Smallmouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Black Crappie.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Salmon Lake — Belgrade — Belgrade, 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.
