Bashan Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Bashan Lake Boat Launch.
The lake
Bashan Lake covers 265 acres in Connecticut, across Lower Connecticut River Valley County. It is a lake: 92.2% of it is 27 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 45 feet (13.7 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Stocking: 1,650 fish in 2025
Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 1,650 fish released into this water in 2025.
- Rainbow Trout: 1,150 in 2025
- Brown Trout: 500 in 2025
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 45 ft (13.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.2% of the water is 27 feet or shallower. We hold 27 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 3.4% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 11.5% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 10.7% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 16% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 13.2% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 17% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 11.7% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 3.3% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 1.9% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 1.3% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 0.8% of the water
2 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Bashan Lake Boat Launch — East Haddam, Bashan Lake. Ballahack Road No. 1, East Haddam 06423 · website portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Boating/Boat-Launches/Bashan-Lake-Boat-Launch
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 67°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.9. These readings span 2016–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Connecticut DEEP — Connecticut DEEP: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
