Goose Pond fishing: Rock Bass, Brown Trout, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Rock Bass, Brown Trout, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Goose Pond Park.
The lake
Goose Pond covers 622 acres in New Hampshire, across Grafton County. It is a lake: 95% of it is 30 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 35 feet (10.7 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Stocking: 400 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 400 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Brown Trout: 400 in 2026
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 35 ft (10.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 95% of the water is 30 feet or shallower. We hold 51 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 7.6% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 3.8% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 28–30 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 30–32 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 32–34 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 34–35 ft: 0.1% of the water
3 target fish, led by Rock Bass
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, White Perch.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Goose Pond Park — Canaan. website nhfg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2243091f322449819c244c0c3b2f3f43
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 72°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
- 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.
