Mooselookmeguntic Lake

OXFORD COUNTY
ELEVATION:  1467 FEET
AREA: 16,300 ACRES

Rangeley, Rangeley Plt., Franklin Co.
Richardsontown Twp., Adamstown Twp., Me.

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Physical Characteristics

Area - 16,300 acres
Maximum depth - 139 feet

Temperatures:
Surface - 70'F
117 feet - 45'F

Principal fishery: Salmon, brook trout

Suggested Management

Mooselookmeguntic and Cupsuptic Lakes are separate bodies of water that have been joined to make one lake by raising the water level of Mooselookmeguntic Lake by some 14 feet. This -water level is maintained by a 20 foot dam at Upper Dam, the outlet of Mooselookmeguntic Lake. The two basins will be considered together in this report and the name Mooselookmeguntic will refer to both lakes.

Mooselookmeguntic Lake, as with all the Rangeley Lakes except Aziscohos, provides excellent temperatures, dissolved oxygen levels, and general water quality characteristics for Coldwater fishes. These conditions provide a habitat that produces good salmon and trout fishing despite the presence of yellow perch, a competing warmwater species. Brown trout are rarely taken, as only a relict population exists in the lake.

Mooselookmeguntic Lake has many tributaries which provide excellent spawning and nursery areas for trout and salmon. Kennebago River, Cupsuptic River, and Bemis stream are the main spawning areas for Mooselookmeguntic Lake and are probably the best spawning streams in the Rangeley area.

Surveyed - July, 1939 (Revised, 1953, 1985, 1992) Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Funded in part by Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act under Federal Project F-28-P L3302D