Rangeley Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Arctic Char

Lake · Maine · Rangeley, 2.9 mi away

Rangeley Lake, Maine: Atlantic Salmon. 1 ramp or launch. 148 ft at the deepest measured point. 28,159 fish stocked since 2010.

Rangeley Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Arctic Char 1

Lake

Surface area: 6,350 acres9.9 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 148.1 ftdeep
Average depth: 60 ftpublished figure, LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0 (no bottom map)
Fish species: 3
Access points: 2
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Rangeley2.9 mi

Rangeley Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Arctic Char

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Arctic Char
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Rangeley Lake — Rangeley.

The lake

Rangeley Lake covers 6,350 acres in Maine, across Franklin County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 148 feet (45.2 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

NUBES EN EL RANGELEY LAKE - panoramio.jpg — Manuel Velazquez · CC BY 3.0

Depth: down to 148 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 148 ft (45.2 m). We hold 447 depth contours for this water, drawn from 538 soundings.

Rangeley Lake Scenic Overlook in Maine.jpg — Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0

0–10 ft: 13.6% of the surveyed bottom
10–20 ft: 11.1% of the surveyed bottom
20–30 ft: 10.7% of the surveyed bottom
30–40 ft: 9.4% of the surveyed bottom
40–50 ft: 8.5% of the surveyed bottom
50–60 ft: 8.1% of the surveyed bottom
60–70 ft: 9% of the surveyed bottom
70–80 ft: 10.2% of the surveyed bottom
80–90 ft: 7.7% of the surveyed bottom
90–100 ft: 4.8% of the surveyed bottom
100–110 ft: 2.8% of the surveyed bottom
110–120 ft: 1.2% of the surveyed bottom
120–130 ft: 1.4% of the surveyed bottom
130–140 ft: 1.1% of the surveyed bottom
140–148 ft: 0.5% of the surveyed bottom

2 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
Arctic Char — Feeding water: 40–55°F.

Also recorded here: Slimy Sculpin.

Rangeley Lake SP Maine.jpg — petersent · Public domain

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

Rangeley Lake — Rangeley — Rangeley, 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

Wind is the limit, not the fish: 6,350 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. 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.