Washining Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Twin Lakes Boat Launch.
The lake
Washining Lake covers 575 acres in Connecticut, across Northwest Hills County. It is a lake: 93.3% of it is 70 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 80 feet (24.4 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 80 ft (24.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.3% of the water is 70 feet or shallower. We hold 29 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 6% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 8.2% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 70–75 ft: 3.8% of the water
- 75–80 ft: 3.1% of the water
Stocking: 58,200 fish in 2025
Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 58,200 fish released into this water in 2025.
- Brown Trout: 4,820 in 2025
- Rainbow Trout: 2,850 in 2025
- Brook Trout: 500 in 2025
2 more species on the stocking list.
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.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 13.3–19.4 feet on our readings, averaging 16.3 feet, from 37 readings. Our water temperature readings average 71°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. The coldest single reading we hold is 47°F and the warmest is 81°F; the warmest monthly average is 80°F. pH averages 8.7. These readings span 2018–2023.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Twin Lakes Boat Launch — Salisbury, East Twin Lake Water Access. State Boat Ramp Access Road, Salisbury · website portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Boating/Boat-Launches/Twin-Lakes-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.
- 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.
