Back 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 Bacon Boat Landing.
The lake
Back Lake covers 351 acres in New Hampshire, across Coos County. It is a lake: 97.2% of it is 13 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Stocking: 4,350 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 4,350 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Brook Trout: 1,600 in 2026
- Rainbow Trout: 1,500 in 2026
- Brown Trout: 1,250 in 2026
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 97.2% of the water is 13 feet or shallower. We hold 30 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–1 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 1–2 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 11.2% of the water
- 8–9 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 9–10 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 10–11 ft: 6% of the water
- 11–13 ft: 9.3% of the water
- 13–15 ft: 3.1% of the water
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.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp and 1 shore access point.
- Bacon Boat Landing — restrooms. Pittsburg.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Philbrook Beach — restrooms. Pittsburg.
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
With 97.2% of the water 13 feet or less, low level turns the flats into hazards. Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- NH GRANIT — NH GRANIT: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map, 2007.
- 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.
