Thompson Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Thompson Lake Marina.

The lake

Thompson Lake covers 4,301 acres in Maine, across 3 counties: Oxford, Androscoggin and Cumberland. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 121 feet (36.9 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: 121 ft (36.9 m). We hold 28 depth contours for this water, drawn from 195 soundings.

  • 0–10 ft: 29.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–20 ft: 17.2% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–30 ft: 8.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–40 ft: 7.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–50 ft: 7.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–60 ft: 8.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–70 ft: 14.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 70–80 ft: 5.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 80–90 ft: 0.1% of the surveyed bottom

2 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

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

Also recorded here: Slimy Sculpin.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2021
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2021 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Thompson Lake Marina — Casco. 340 Heath Road, Casco 04015 · phone +1-207-627-4107 · website thompsonlakemarina.com

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.