Massabesic Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Brown Trout, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Black Crappie
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Candia Road Boat Launch.

The lake

Massabesic Lake covers 2,564 acres in New Hampshire, across 2 counties: Rockingham and Hillsborough. It is a lake: 92.1% of it is 33 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 9 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Chain Pickerel — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Yellow Bullhead.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 50 ft (15.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.1% of the water is 33 feet or shallower. We hold 125 depth contour lines for this water.

Massabesic Lake December 2012.jpg
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  • 0–3 ft: 12.9% of the water
  • 3–6 ft: 9.7% of the water
  • 6–9 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 9–12 ft: 9.5% of the water
  • 12–15 ft: 9.8% of the water
  • 15–18 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 18–21 ft: 9% of the water
  • 21–24 ft: 6.4% of the water
  • 24–27 ft: 5.8% of the water
  • 27–30 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 30–33 ft: 3.9% of the water
  • 33–36 ft: 2.9% of the water
  • 36–39 ft: 2.8% of the water
  • 39–42 ft: 1.9% of the water
  • 42–45 ft: 0.3% of the water
  • 45–48 ft: 0.1% of the water

Stocking: 3,710 fish in 2026

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 3,710 fish released into this water in 2026.

  • Brook Trout: 2,060 in 2026
  • Rainbow Trout: 1,150 in 2026
  • Brown Trout: 500 in 2026

3 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 3 boat ramps and 2 shore access points.

  • Candia Road Boat Launch — Auburn.
  • Clair's Landing — Auburn.
  • Deerneck Bridge Cartop Launch — Auburn.

Shore access for bank fishing

  • Boating and Fishing — Auburn.
  • Massabesic Lake Picnic Area — restrooms. Auburn.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 5 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 3 public ramps are 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.