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.
- Scopan Lake — 58 ft max · survey depth data · Landlocked Salmon, SplakeWhy #1: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Messalonskee Lake — 113 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, CrappieWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 3 public access sites, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Nicatous Lake — 42 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook TroutWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- Attean Pond — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Burbot, Splake, PumpkinseedWhy #4: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- Endless Lake — 36 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Landlocked Salmon, Chain Pickerel, White PerchWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Echo Lake — 117 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- Pleasant River Lake — 54 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, White PerchWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- Cedar Lake — 24 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Chain PickerelWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Mopang Lake — 76 ft max · survey depth data · Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon, SplakeWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
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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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