Acadia and Bar Harbor have lots of locations for great fishing
Route 3
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
This national park is glorious. The oldest national park on the East Coast, visitors will enjoy a variety of wonders including the unusual geological formations, nature and wildlife, scheduled events, scenic drives, hiking, biking, and boat cruises. Don't forget to look for the puffins, North America's answer to the penguin. Fishing sites abound, with approximately 20 lakes and ponds from which to choose. Public camping is available at two locations, and there are fees for camping and for entering the park. In winter there is cross country skiing, snowshoeing and limited snowmobiling.
Cobscook Bay State Park
Route 1
Dennysville, ME 04628
Phone: 207-726-4412
This park offers visitors a bevy of activities: canoeing, fishing, a scenic drive, hiking trails, picnic areas, and cross-country and snowmobile trails in the winter. There is a public campsite available. Open May 15-Oct. 15.
Grand Lakes Area
Princeton, ME
Princeton is the gateway to a fisherman's paradise, featuring dozens of lakes, streams and rivers and plenty of varied fish to challenge all season long.
Lamoine State Park
Lamoine, ME
Phone: 207-667-4778
This park offers both fishing and picnic areas. A public campground is available. In the Acadia region, the state of Maine recommends several fishing sites:
On U.S. 1 between Bangor and Ellsworth, Phillips Lake, Greene Lake, Branch Pond, and Graham Lake. All provide fine fishing for pickerel, togue, salmon, and brook and brown trout.
Outside of Ellsworth fishermen can find Tunk Lake, among other ponds, streams and lakes.
Along Maine Route 9, outside Bangor, fishing is recommended at Chemo Pond, Beech Hill Pond, Floods Pond, Molasses Pond, and Webb Pond.
In Bucksport, along ME Route 15, salmon, togue, and trout can be caught in Toddy Pond and Lake Alamoosook.
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
Charlotte Road
Calais, ME 04619
Phone: 207-454-7161
This nature preserve offers trails and roads for wildlife observation. In the wintertime, the unplowed roads become cross-country ski trails. Fishing and deer hunting are permitted.
Roque Bluffs State Park
145 Schoppee Point Road
Roque Bluffs, ME 04654
Phone: 207-255-3475 (Park season
This 300-acre park features fishing, picnic area with grills, changing areas with toilets, a playground, and a scenic stretch of beach with ocean swimming. Cliffs on the state's Bold Coast offer dramatic views.
112 Milford Road
Grand Lake Stream, ME 04637
Phone: 207-796-5558
Experience the tradition of Grand Lake Stream
The region surrounding Weatherby's is home to dozens of pristine, undeveloped lakes with some of the best smallmouth bass fishing one can find anywhere. It's also only one of four in the state that have native landlocked salmon - cousin the mighty Atlantic salmon. The season for the salmon begins in late April or May after the ice leaves our lakes and they follow the smelt, a favorite forage fish, into Grand Lake Stream.
July, August and September provide high quality fishing, either with live bait, flies or artificial lures that will excite novice to experienced anglers. Our largest fish usually come to the canoe during this time of year with numerous four to five pound fish caught each season. Typically during mid-summer the salmon move to the deep pools or into the lakes to feed, only to return in late September and October to spawn. You can experience tremendous fishing for large salmon in the spawning dress during this time.
