Merrymeeting Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Merrymeeting Lake.

The lake

Merrymeeting Lake covers 1,233 acres in New Hampshire, across Strafford County. It is a lake: 90.7% of it is 90 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 120 feet (36.6 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 120 ft (36.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.7% of the water is 90 feet or shallower. We hold 37 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–10 ft: 18.6% of the water
  • 10–20 ft: 13.5% of the water
  • 20–30 ft: 10.7% of the water
  • 30–40 ft: 10.1% of the water
  • 40–50 ft: 10.6% of the water
  • 50–60 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 60–70 ft: 6.8% of the water
  • 70–80 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 80–90 ft: 6.4% of the water
  • 90–100 ft: 4.7% of the water
  • 100–110 ft: 4.3% of the water
  • 110–120 ft: 0.5% of the water

Stocking: 2,405 fish in 2026

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 2,405 fish released into this water in 2026.

  • Rainbow Trout: 1,400 in 2026

One more species on the stocking list.

Merrymeeting Lake.jpg
Ken Gallager (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0

3 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
  • Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Merrymeeting Lake — restrooms. New Durham.

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.

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.