Moosehead Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 6 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Moosehead Lake — Beaver Cove Plt.
The lake
Moosehead Lake covers 75,614 acres in Maine, across Piscataquis County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 240 feet (73.2 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth: down to 240 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 240 ft (73.2 m). We hold 5 depth contours for this water, drawn from 1,245 soundings.
2 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, White Perch.
6 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 6 boat ramps and 1 shore access point.
- Moosehead Lake — Beaver Cove Plt — restrooms. Beaver Cove Plt, State.
- Moosehead Lake — Days Academy Grant — restrooms. Days Academy Grant, State.
- Moosehead Lake — Greenville — restrooms. Greenville, Local.
- Moosehead Lake — Rockwood — restrooms. Rockwood, State.
- Moosehead Lake — T1 R14 WELS — T1 R14 Wels, State.
- Moosehead Lake — T3 R15 WELS — T3 R15 Wels, State.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Moosehead Lake — Big W Twp — Big W Twp, State.
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 7 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.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 75,614 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
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.
