Megunticook Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Megunticook Lake — Camden.
The lake
Megunticook Lake covers 1,259 acres in Maine, across 2 counties: Waldo and Knox. It is a lake: 92.8% of it is 30 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 64 feet (19.5 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth: down to 64 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 64 ft (19.5 m). 92.8% of the water is 30 feet or shallower. We hold 276 depth contours for this water, drawn from 202 soundings.
- 0–5 ft: 26.4% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 17.8% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 15.1% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 15.9% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 12.4% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 1.9% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 0.4% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 0.3% of the water
Stocking: 20,710 fish, 2010–2025
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 20,710 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2025.
- Rainbow Trout: 16,410 in 2010–2025
- Brown Trout: 4,300 in 2010–2025
3 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
Also recorded here: Black Crappie.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Megunticook Lake — Camden — Camden, 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.
