Messalonskee Lake fishing: Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike
Target species: Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Brown Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Messalonskee Lake — Oakland.
The lake
Messalonskee Lake covers 3,657 acres in Maine, across Kennebec County. It is a lake: the deepest figure on record is 113 feet (34.4 m), as published by 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), a figure without a map of the bottom. Our records hold 7 species for this water.
6 target fish, led by Brook Trout
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
Also recorded here: Rainbow Trout.
Stocking: 150,860 fish, 2010–2026
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 150,860 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2026.
- Brook Trout: 78,702 in 2010–2026
- Brown Trout: 22,745 in 2010–2025
2 more species on the stocking list.
Depth: 113 ft on record
Deepest figure on record: 113 ft (34.4 m), as published by 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). We hold no survey map of this bottom, so we show no depth bands.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 boat ramps and 1 shore access point.
- Messalonskee Lake — Oakland — Oakland, Local. 18 Old Belgrade Avenue, Oakland 04963
- Messalonskee Lake — Sidney — Sidney, State. 88 Hosta Lane, Sidney 04330
Shore access for bank fishing
- Messalonskee Lake — Belgrade — Belgrade, State.
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 76°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.6. These readings span 2017–2018. The latest reading is from 2018, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
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.
