Blakeslee Lake Fishing Guide, Franklin County, Maine

• Overview

  Blakeslee Lake belongs to Franklin County, Maine. Beyond the shoreline you have mixed forest. With some 48 acres of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Shoreline comes to about 1.3 miles, small enough to learn in a day. It is high ground by Maine standards. The town to know is Lac-Mégantic, 26 miles out. Kingfield lies 33 miles off, Phillips another 39 miles. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Blakeslee Lake

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Open biodiversity records for Franklin County list Atlantic salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout and brook trout. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. On Blakeslee Lake a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 10°F to 63°F. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from late April. Averages suggest open water from about late April through to roughly late November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. At Blakeslee Lake the season follows that pattern closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Davis Pond, 1.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. For Blakeslee Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.