Umbagog Lake fishing: Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Target species: Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Umbagog Lake Boat Access Facility.
The lake
Umbagog Lake covers 7,632 acres in New Hampshire, across Coos County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 48 feet (14.6 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water. 39% of the water lies in Maine.
Depth: down to 48 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 48 ft (14.6 m). We hold 246 depth contours for this water, drawn from 164 soundings.
3 target fish, led by Smallmouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.
- Umbagog Lake Boat Access Facility — restrooms. Cambridge, UMBAGOG NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
- Umbagog Lake State Park — restrooms. Cambridge.
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: 7,632 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
- NH GRANIT — NH GRANIT: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- 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.
