Lovell Lake fishing: Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lovell Lake Boat Ramp.
The lake
Lovell Lake covers 541 acres in New Hampshire, across Carroll County. It is a lake: 93.7% of it is 33 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 45 feet (13.7 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Stocking: 1,500 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 1,500 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 1,500 in 2026
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 45 ft (13.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.7% of the water is 33 feet or shallower. We hold 58 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 7% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 10.3% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 11.6% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 11.9% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 10.3% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 3% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 1.8% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 1.5% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 0.1% of the water
3 target fish, led by Smallmouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Rainbow 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.
- Lovell Lake Boat Ramp — Wakefield.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Town Beach — restrooms. 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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 64°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.7. 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.
