SOUTH BRANCH LAKE

T2 R8 Nand Seboeis Twps.,

Penobscot Co. U. S. G. S. Lincoln, Me.

 

Fish Types:

Smallmouth bass White perch

Yellow perch Chain pickerel

Hornpout (bullhead) Eel
White sucker

Physical Area - 2035 acres

Minnows
Common shiner Fallfish (chub)

Nine spine stickleback

Pumpkinseed Yellowbelly sunfish

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Characteristics:

Temperatures Surface - 67 degrees F.

@ 25 feet - 67 degrees F.

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South Branch Lake provides excellent small-mouth bass habitat. Rarely, a migrating brook trout moves into the lake from the outlet stream, but the lake contains no water suitable to carry trout through the summer.

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Regulations governing white perch should be liberalized so that fishermen can crop the available white perch harvest. In addition to providing a better use of the fishery, white perch liberalization would reduce food and space competition between the white perch and bass.

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Maximum depth - 28 feet
Suggested Management:  sunfish

Surveyed 1954
Courtesy of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game