Great East Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Boat Launch.

The lake

Great East Lake covers 1,768 acres in New Hampshire, across Carroll County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 102 feet (31.1 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water. 43% of the water lies in Maine.

Depth: down to 102 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 102 ft (31.1 m). We hold 163 depth contours for this water, drawn from 182 soundings.

  • 0–10 ft: 26.3% of the surveyed bottom
  • 10–20 ft: 14.5% of the surveyed bottom
  • 20–30 ft: 11.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 30–40 ft: 10.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 40–50 ft: 15.1% of the surveyed bottom
  • 50–60 ft: 10.4% of the surveyed bottom
  • 60–70 ft: 4.9% of the surveyed bottom
  • 70–80 ft: 3.8% of the surveyed bottom
  • 80–90 ft: 2.6% of the surveyed bottom
  • 90–100 ft: 0.6% of the surveyed bottom

Stocking: 3,260 fish in 2026

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 3,260 fish released into this water in 2026.

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  • Rainbow Trout: 2,000 in 2026

One more species on the stocking list.

2 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.

Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Boat Launch — restrooms. Wakefield.
  • Weeks Beach — Wakefield.

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

Only 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Maine DEP — Maine DEP: depth soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • 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.