Onota Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Onota Lake, 2 lanes.

The lake

Onota Lake covers 669 acres in Massachusetts, across Berkshire County. It is a lake: 93% of it is 50 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 70 feet (21.3 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Pontsuc Lake and Onota Lake.jpg
Andy Arthur · CC BY 2.0

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 70 ft (21.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93% of the water is 50 feet or shallower. We hold 30 depth contour lines for this water.

Lake Onota - Pittsfield, Massachusetts.jpg
Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • 0–5 ft: 30.6% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 16.4% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 9.8% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 5.3% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 3.9% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 3.4% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 4.2% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 8.8% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 3% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 2.1% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 1.5% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 0.5% of the water

2 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Also recorded here: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass.

Lake Onota - Pittsfield, Massachusetts - 6141958879.jpg
Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Onota Lake — 2 lanes. Pittsfield, City Of Pittsfield.

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.
  • 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.