Highland Lake 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 Highland Lake — Bridgton.

The lake

Highland Lake covers 1,292 acres in Maine, across Cumberland County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth: down to 50 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 50 ft (15.2 m). We hold 109 depth contours for this water, drawn from 74 soundings.

  • 0–3 ft: 13.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 3–6 ft: 11.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 6–9 ft: 10.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 9–12 ft: 8.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 12–15 ft: 9.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 15–18 ft: 10.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 18–21 ft: 8.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 21–24 ft: 7.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 24–27 ft: 9.7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 27–30 ft: 6.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–33 ft: 1.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 33–36 ft: 1.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 36–39 ft: 0.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 39–42 ft: 0.1% 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.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Highland Lake — Bridgton — Bridgton, Local.

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.