Great Pond fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout, Northern Pike
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Great Pond Marina.

The lake

Great Pond covers 8,538 acres in Maine, across Kennebec County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 69 feet (21 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.

Depth: down to 69 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 69 ft (21 m). We hold 730 depth contours for this water, drawn from 937 soundings.

  • 0–5 ft: 13% of the surveyed bottom
  • 5–10 ft: 17.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–15 ft: 18.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 15–20 ft: 12.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–25 ft: 7.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 25–30 ft: 7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–35 ft: 7.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 35–40 ft: 5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–45 ft: 3.7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 45–50 ft: 3.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–55 ft: 2.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 55–60 ft: 1.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–65 ft: 0.7% of the surveyed bottom

Stocking: 45,584 fish, 2010–2025

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 45,584 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2025.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2021
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2021 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain
  • Brown Trout: 45,384 in 2010–2025

One more species on the stocking list.

4 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

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

Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie, Alewife.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Great Pond — Belgrade — restrooms. Belgrade, State.
  • Great Pond Marina — Belgrade. 25 Marina Drive, Belgrade 04917

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.

What is hard here

Wind is the limit, not the fish: 8,538 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. 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.