Pleasant Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Elkins Dam Site.
The lake
Pleasant Lake covers 608 acres in New Hampshire, across Merrimack County. It is a lake: 92.5% of it is 75 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 90 feet (27.4 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 90 ft (27.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.5% of the water is 75 feet or shallower. We hold 30 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 7% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 9.5% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 10.9% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 70–75 ft: 3.8% of the water
- 75–80 ft: 4% of the water
- 80–85 ft: 2.3% of the water
- 85–90 ft: 1.2% of the water
Stocking: 4,420 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 4,420 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Brook Trout: 2,000 in 2026
- Rainbow Trout: 700 in 2026
One more species on the stocking list.
4 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 71°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. The coldest single reading we hold is 57°F and the warmest is 80°F; the warmest monthly average is 76°F. pH averages 6.7. These readings span 2016–2024.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Elkins Dam Site — New London.
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.
