Swan Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Yellow Perch
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Yellow Perch, Arctic Grayling, Northern Pike, Lake Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Swan Lake Boat.
The lake
Swan Lake covers 3,335 acres in Montana, across Lake County. It is a lake: 96.1% of it is 110 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 120 feet (36.6 m). Our records hold 9 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 120 ft (36.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 96.1% of the water is 110 feet or shallower. We hold 78 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–10 ft: 17.1% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 8% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 10.4% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 7% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 7.8% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 4% of the water
6 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Arctic Grayling — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Pumpkinseed.
Stocking: 5,143,924 fish, 1965–2007
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks records list 5,143,924 fish released into this water from 1965 to 2007. The latest stocking on record is from 2007, more than three years ago.
- Cutthroat Trout: 2,918,631 in 1925–1969
- Rainbow Trout: 378,979 in 1925–1984
- Arctic Grayling: 349,000 in 1952–1953
2 more species on the stocking list.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Swan Lake Boat — Concessionaire. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/flathead/recreation/camping-cabins/recarea/?recid=67054&actid=29
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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 68°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2023.
What is hard here
Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: 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.
