Lake George fishing: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout

Lake · Maine · Canaan, 1.6 mi away

Lake George, Maine: Rainbow Trout. 90.4% of it is 45 feet deep or less. 20,880 fish stocked since 2010.

Lake

Surface area: 320 acres0.5 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 68 ftdeep
Average depth: 23.7 ft
Fish species: 4
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Canaan1.6 mi

Lake George fishing: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Brown Trout

The lake

Lake George covers 320 acres in Maine, across Somerset County. It is a lake: 90.4% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 68 feet (20.7 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: 68 ft (20.7 m). 90.4% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 14 depth contours for this water, drawn from 156 soundings.

0–5 ft: 12.4% of the water
5–10 ft: 13.4% of the water
10–15 ft: 12.5% of the water
15–20 ft: 11.7% of the water
20–25 ft: 10% of the water
25–30 ft: 8% of the water
30–35 ft: 7.4% of the water
35–40 ft: 8.7% of the water
40–45 ft: 6.3% of the water
45–50 ft: 3.8% of the water
50–55 ft: 3.2% of the water
55–60 ft: 2.5% of the water

Stocking: 20,880 fish, 2010–2025

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 20,880 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2025.

Brook Trout: 11,755 in 2010–2025
Rainbow Trout: 7,840 in 2010–2025
Brown Trout: 935 in 2012–2025

One more species on the stocking list.

4 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Ramps and access

On this water we hold 1 shore access point.

Shore access for bank fishing

Lake George — Skowhegan — Skowhegan, 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.

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.