Colebrook River Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
The lake
Colebrook River Lake covers 746 acres in Connecticut, across Northwest Hills County. It is a lake: 91.3% of it is 120 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 130 feet (39.6 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water. 17% of the water lies in Massachusetts.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 130 ft (39.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.3% of the water is 120 feet or shallower. We hold 57 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–10 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 10.5% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 8% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 7.6% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 120–130 ft: 8.8% of the water
Stocking: 3,300 fish in 2025
Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 3,300 fish released into this water in 2025.
- Brown Trout: 1,400 in 2025
- Brook Trout: 1,000 in 2025
- Rainbow Trout: 900 in 2025
3 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Bluegill.
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.
