Big Island Pond 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 BIPC Ramp.
The lake
Big Island Pond covers 550 acres in New Hampshire, across Rockingham County. It is a lake: 91.2% of it is 40 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 70 feet (21.3 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 70 ft (21.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.2% of the water is 40 feet or shallower. We hold 47 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 32% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 18.4% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 10.5% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 8.8% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 5% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 4.4% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 2.1% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 1% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 0.9% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 0.9% of the water
Stocking: 1,965 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 1,965 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 1,000 in 2026
- Brown Trout: 700 in 2026
- Brook Trout: 265 in 2026
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.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Black Crappie.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp and 1 shore access point.
- BIPC Ramp — Derry.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Island Pond Canoe Launch — Atkinson.
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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 76°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.1. These readings span 2017–2024.
What is hard here
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.
- 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.
