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State of the Waters · Pine Tree State

Maine Water Levels & the Daily Bite

Live levels for Maine's great lakes — Moosehead, Sebago, Rangeley and the North Woods waters. Every tube shows the normal level, the current level, the lake's two signature fish (hover for the species, click for 2026 tournaments), and a live bite gauge at left. Scroll down for the Kennebec & Piscataquis trout water and the Penobscot, Kennebec & Androscoggin rivers.

Fetching live readings…
Pick how you're using the water today — jump to live conditions:
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Flood / above normal At normal pool Below normal Current level Bite gauge: slow → hot (solunar)

Hover a fish for its species · click a fish to search that lake's 2026 tournaments

Each cylinder is scaled to its own operating band: the gold line is normal full pool, the red line is the flood / above-normal line, and the blue water is the live reading. Where a Maine water has a live gauge (USGS, the Bureau of Reclamation, or California's CDEC) it reads true surface elevation; lakes with no public real-time feed show the most recent published level. The colored bar at left is a solunar bite forecast for right now (red = slow, green = hot).

Trout Tailwaters — Cold Water Below the Dams

Maine holds landlocked salmon and wild brook trout: the Kennebec below Wyman & Harris dams at The Forks, and the freestone Piscataquis — cold brown and rainbow water (salmon & brookies too). The cylinder shows live flow (cfs), low = wadeable, high = fast water. Hover a trout for the species; tap it for a guide.

The Kennebec runs on dam release out of The Forks; check the schedule before wading.

River Catfish — Warm-Water Rivers

Warmwater fishing is thin in the cold North Woods. Live stage (ft) with action and flood marked. Hover a fish for the species; tap it for a guide.

Float Rivers — Paddle & Wade

The Penobscot and Kennebec are big-river smallmouth water, with spring stripers running up. Live USGS gage height (ft); each tube marks FLOAT, EXPERT and FLOOD. Hover a fish; tap it for an outfitter.

Maine rivers are snowmelt-driven — high in spring, dropping into prime smallmouth shape by summer.

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