Lake Zoar fishing: Walleye, Bluegill
Target species: Walleye, Bluegill
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Zoar Boat Launch.
The lake
Lake Zoar covers 961 acres in Connecticut, across 3 counties: Western Connecticut, Naugatuck Valley and Greater Bridgeport. It is a lake: 93.2% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 64 feet (19.5 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 64 ft (19.5 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.2% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 83 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 20% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 15.5% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 16.5% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 11.5% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 1.4% of the water
Stocking: 5,310 fish in 2025
Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 5,310 fish released into this water in 2025.
- Walleye: 5,310 in 2025
2 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, Brook Silverside.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 66°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.5. These readings span 2017–2025.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Lake Zoar Boat Launch — Southbury, Lake Zoar Wildlife Management Area. 210 Scout Road, Southbury · website portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Boating/Boat-Launches/Lake-Zoar-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.
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.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- 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.
