Lower Suncook Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Town Boat Launch.
The lake
Lower Suncook Lake covers 295 acres in New Hampshire, across Belknap County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 37 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–1 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 1–3 ft: 10% of the water
- 3–5 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 5–7 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 8–9 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 9–10 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 10–11 ft: 9% of the water
- 11–12 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 12–13 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 13–14 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 14–15 ft: 15.3% of the water
3 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp and 1 shore access point.
- Town Boat Launch — Barnstead.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Suncook Lake Dam — Barnstead.
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 77°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.9. 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.
