Middle Pond fishing: Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Brown Trout

Lake · Massachusetts · Camp Berkshire, 0.2 mi away

Middle Pond, Massachusetts: Rainbow Trout. 90.9% of it is 36 feet deep or less. 1 trailer ramp. At least 40 ft deep. 1,100 fish stocked since 2025.

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Middle Pond fishing: Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Brown Trout — video

Lake

Surface area: 279 acres0.4 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 40 ftdeep
Fish species: 4
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Camp Berkshire0.2 mi

Middle Pond fishing: Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Brown Trout

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Congamond Lakes (North Ramp), 2 lanes.

The lake

Middle Pond covers 279 acres in Massachusetts, across Hampden County. It is a lake: 90.9% of it is 36 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 40 feet (12.2 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Congamond Lakes Middle Pond, Southwick MA.jpg — John Phelan · CC BY 4.0

Stocking: 1,100 fish in 2025

Connecticut DEEP Fisheries Division records list 1,100 fish released into this water in 2025.

Middle Pond, Massasoit State Park, Taunton MA.jpg — John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Brown Trout: 550 in 2025
Rainbow Trout: 550 in 2025

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 40 ft (12.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.9% of the water is 36 feet or shallower. We hold 70 depth contour lines for this water.

0–2 ft: 1.4% of the water
2–4 ft: 2.8% of the water
4–6 ft: 4.4% of the water
6–8 ft: 5.5% of the water
8–10 ft: 5.9% of the water
10–12 ft: 6.5% of the water
12–14 ft: 6.7% of the water
14–16 ft: 6.8% of the water
16–18 ft: 6.4% of the water
18–20 ft: 6.2% of the water
20–22 ft: 4.7% of the water
22–24 ft: 4.9% of the water
24–26 ft: 5.5% of the water
26–28 ft: 5.1% of the water
28–30 ft: 4.7% of the water
30–32 ft: 3.5% of the water
32–34 ft: 4.1% of the water
34–36 ft: 5.8% of the water
36–38 ft: 3.2% of the water
38–40 ft: 6.2% of the water

3 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

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

Also recorded here: Rock Bass.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Congamond Lakes (North Ramp) — 2 lanes. Southwick, Town Of Southwick.

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

MassWildlife — MassWildlife: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
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.