New England’s largest lake and Maine’s tallest mountain are the gleaming centerpieces of this pristine part of the state: 40-mile-long Moosehead Lake, a mecca for anglers, campers, boaters and moose-watchers; and Katahdin, the crown of 201,000-acre Baxter State Park and the beginning of the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail.
In this vast interior region are innumerable streams, rivers, lakes and ponds in which to wet a line, as well as generations-old sporting camps which cater to visiting fishermen. The region’s waters abound with salmon, wild trout, togue and smallmouth bass, and several waters host the hybrid splake, an exciting, easy-to-catch fish that is a cross between the brook trout and togue.