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Best splake lakes in Maine

9 Maine waters hold splake, 9 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. Stocked brook × lake trout hybrid — the Shield-lake specialty that splits the difference: shallower than lakers, deeper than brookies, and a superb ice bite.

1. Scopan Lake — 58 ft max · survey depth data · Landlocked Salmon, Splake
2. Messalonskee Lake — 113 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Crappie
3. Nicatous Lake — 42 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout
4. Attean Pond — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Burbot, Splake, Pumpkinseed
5. Endless Lake — 36 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Landlocked Salmon, Chain Pickerel, White Perch
6. Mopang Lake — 76 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Splake
7. Echo Lake — 117 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
8. Pleasant River Lake — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, White Perch
9. Cedar Lake — 24 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Chain Pickerel

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When to fish splake in Maine

• Spring 5–25 ft — Ice-out through spring, splake patrol shoreline rock, points and inflows like oversized brookies.
• Summer 25–60 ft — Warm water pushes splake below the thermocline — deep breaks and humps, shallower than lakers in the same lake.
• Fall 10–35 ft — Mostly sterile but still hormone-driven — fall splake stage on rock shoals and points and eat aggressively.
• Winter 10–45 ft — Why they're stocked: an active, roaming winter predator — work basin edges and mid-depth humps, and hole-hop.

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