Sebec Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Redbreast

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Redbreast
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Sebec Lake — Dover-Foxcroft.

The lake

Sebec Lake covers 6,450 acres in Maine, across Piscataquis County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 155 feet (47.2 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Sebec Lake evening.jpg
J. Passepartout · CC BY-SA 4.0

Depth: down to 155 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 155 ft (47.2 m). We hold 192 depth contours for this water, drawn from 236 soundings.

  • 0–10 ft: 31.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–20 ft: 14.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–30 ft: 10.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–40 ft: 9.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–50 ft: 8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–60 ft: 6.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–70 ft: 5.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 70–80 ft: 4.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 80–90 ft: 3.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 90–100 ft: 2.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 100–110 ft: 1.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 110–120 ft: 0.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 120–130 ft: 0.5% of the surveyed bottom

3 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
  • Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • Redbreast — Feeding water: 65–80°F.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Sebec Lake — Dover-Foxcroft — Dover-Foxcroft, Local.
  • Sebec Lake — Sebec — Sebec, Local.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 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: 6,450 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. 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.