Squantz Pond fishing: Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Bluegill

Target species: Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Lake Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Candlewood Lake (Squantz Cove) Boat Launch.

The lake

Squantz Pond covers 279 acres in Connecticut, across Western Connecticut County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 40 feet (12.2 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

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5 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Also recorded here: Grass Carp.

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Stocking: 5,647 fish in 2025

Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 5,647 fish released into this water in 2025.

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  • Rainbow Trout: 2,000 in 2025
  • Brown Trout: 1,820 in 2025
  • Walleye: 1,727 in 2025
  • Lake Trout: 70 in 2025

One more species on the stocking list.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 40 ft (12.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 55 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 3.8% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 3.2% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 5.3% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 6.6% of the water
  • 10–12 ft: 5.8% of the water
  • 12–14 ft: 4.3% of the water
  • 14–16 ft: 4.2% of the water
  • 16–18 ft: 4.4% of the water
  • 18–20 ft: 4.8% of the water
  • 20–22 ft: 5% of the water
  • 22–24 ft: 4.1% of the water
  • 24–26 ft: 4.1% of the water
  • 26–28 ft: 4.6% of the water
  • 28–30 ft: 4.1% of the water
  • 30–32 ft: 3% of the water
  • 32–34 ft: 2.7% of the water
  • 34–36 ft: 2.7% of the water
  • 36–38 ft: 3% of the water
  • 38–40 ft: 17.7% of the water

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 73°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2020. The latest reading is from 2020, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Candlewood Lake (Squantz Cove) Boat Launch — New Fairfield, Squantz Pond State Park. Old Bogus Road, New Fairfield · website portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Boating/Boat-Launches/Candlewood-Lake-Squantz-Cove--Boat-Launch
  • Squantz Pond Boat Launch — New Fairfield, Squantz Pond State Park. 178 Shortwoods Road, New Fairfield · website portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Boating/Boat-Launches/Squantz-Pond-Boat-Launch

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: 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 2 public ramps are 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.