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Best burbot lakes in Maine

40 Maine waters hold burbot, 40 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. The freshwater cod that feeds at night under the ice — ugly, delicious and wildly underrated.

1. Chesuncook Lake — 150 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
2. Chamberlain Lake — 152 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
3. West Grand Lake — 127 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
4. Big Eagle Lake — 122 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
5. Eagle Lake — 135 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
6. Lower Sysladobsis Lake — 66 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
7. Pemadumcook Lake — 100 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
8. Square Lake — 122 ft max · survey depth data · Brook Trout, Burbot, White Perch, Brown Bullhead
9. Attean Pond — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Burbot, Splake, Pumpkinseed
10. Little Ossipee Lake — 72 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Yellow Perch
11. Ragged Lake — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Burbot
12. St Froid Lake — 114 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
13. Allagash Lake — 89 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
14. Lobster Lake — 107 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
15. Round Pond / Telos Lake — 86 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Burbot
16. Cold Stream Pond — 103 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel
17. Ross Lake — 105 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
18. Pleasant Lake — 63 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, Burbot, White Perch
19. Unity Pond — 41 ft max · survey depth data · Crappie, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Burbot
20. Fish River Lake — 46 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Burbot
21. Lake Wassookeag — 85 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
22. Nahmakanta Lake — 110 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
23. West Musquash Lake — 108 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
24. Harrington Lake — 134 ft max · survey depth data · Lake Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Burbot, Brown Bullhead
25. Kezar Pond — 12 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Burbot

…plus 15 more Maine waters holding burbot.

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When to fish burbot in Maine

• Spring 25–70 ft — Post-spawn burbot slide back toward deep basins but still run shallow rock after dark.
• Summer 50–120 ft — Deep and sluggish in warm months — mostly a bycatch while jigging deep structure for lake trout.
• Fall 30–80 ft — Feeding picks up hard as the water cools — dead bait or glow spoons on deep rock at night.
• Winter 15–60 ft — Late-winter spawners stack on rock humps and shoals — glow jigs pounded on bottom after dark.

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