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Long Lake
Long Lake is the second largest water body in southern Maine and is part of the Presumpscott River drainage. It connects to Brandy Pond and Sebago Lake, making it popular with waterskiers and boaters. Activities on the Causeway in Naples include trips on the Songo River Queen, paddleboat, seaplane rides, windsurfing and para-sailing.
Surface Area: 4,935 acres
Maximum Depth: 59 feet
Mean Depth: 34 feet
Volume: 165,500 acres/feet
Watershed : 33,871 acres
Elevation: 267 feet
Shorefront lots: 1,102
Long Lake supports a high quality black bass fishery and is one of the more popular lakes in southern Maine for bass angling tournaments. Other principal fisheries are
landlocked Atlantic salmon
brown trout
chain pickerel
white perch.
American eel
golden and common shiner
fallfish,
white sucker
brown bullhead
burbot
lake and brook trout,
pumpkinseed sunfish
yellow perch
rainbow smelt.
Each fall the lake is stocked with 12-14 inch landlocked salmon and brown trout from the state hatcheries.
Visit the site below for more information and lake quality:
http://www.mainelakes.org/documents/YrLake/LongLake.pdf
Brandy Pond:
Brandy Pond, originally called the Bay of Naples was a primary commercial and recreational travel route during Maine’s early development stages. Today, activities on the Causeway in Naples include trips on the Songo River Queen paddleboat, seaplane rides, windsurfing and para-sailing. Brandy Pond is connected to Long Lake and to Sebago Lake via the Songo River.
Surface Area: 733 acres
Maximum Depth: 44 feet
Mean Depth: 16 feet
Volume: 11,789 acres/feet
Watershed : 2,300 acres
Elevation: 267 feet
Shorefront lots: 204
For more information on fishing and water quality visit:
http://www.mainelakes.org/documents/YrLake/BrandyPond.pdf
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