Long Pond fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Long Pond — Mount Desert.
The lake
Long Pond covers 950 acres in Maine, across Hancock County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 112 feet (34.1 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Depth: down to 112 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 112 ft (34.1 m). We hold 67 depth contours for this water, drawn from 113 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 34.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 10–20 ft: 22.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 20–30 ft: 9.7% of the surveyed bottom
- 30–40 ft: 7.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 40–50 ft: 6.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 50–60 ft: 5% of the surveyed bottom
- 60–70 ft: 4.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 70–80 ft: 3.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 80–90 ft: 2.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 90–100 ft: 2% of the surveyed bottom
- 100–110 ft: 1.2% of the surveyed bottom
2 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Redfin Pickerel.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Long Pond — Mount Desert — restrooms. Mount Desert, 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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 60°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.3. These readings span 2016–2023.
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.
