Mousam Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Mousam Lake — Shapleigh.

The lake

Mousam Lake covers 982 acres in Maine, across York County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 88 feet (26.8 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Aerial View of Mousam Lake.jpg
Naib · CC BY 4.0

Depth: down to 88 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 88 ft (26.8 m). We hold 199 depth contours for this water, drawn from 139 soundings.

  • 0–5 ft: 35.7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 5–10 ft: 14.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–15 ft: 9.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 15–20 ft: 7.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–25 ft: 6.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 25–30 ft: 6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–35 ft: 4.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 35–40 ft: 3.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–45 ft: 2.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 45–50 ft: 2.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–55 ft: 2.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 55–60 ft: 1.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–65 ft: 1.7% of the surveyed bottom
  • 65–70 ft: 1.2% of the surveyed bottom
  • 70–75 ft: 0.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 75–80 ft: 0.1% of the surveyed bottom

Stocking: 28,986 fish, 2010–2025

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife records list 28,986 fish released into this water from 2010 to 2025.

G. A. R. Camps, Mousam Lake, Shapleigh, ME.jpg
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  • Brown Trout: 18,720 in 2010–2025

3 more species on the stocking list.

2 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

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

Also recorded here: Rainbow Trout, Bluegill.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Mousam Lake — Shapleigh — restrooms. Shapleigh, State. 125 Emery Mills Road, Shapleigh 04076

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.
  • 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.