Pleasant Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Pleasant Lake Boat Launch.
The lake
Pleasant Lake covers 479 acres in New Hampshire, across Rockingham County. It is a lake: 91.4% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 60 feet (18.3 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 60 ft (18.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.4% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 31 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 2.9% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 8.3% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 8.3% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 6% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 3.1% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 3% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 3.4% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 1.1% of the water
- 54–57 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 57–60 ft: 0.2% of the water
Stocking: 2,300 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 2,300 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 1,800 in 2026
- Brown Trout: 500 in 2026
2 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 72°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. The coldest single reading we hold is 52°F and the warmest is 82°F; the warmest monthly average is 78°F. pH averages 6.5. These readings span 2016–2024.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Pleasant Lake Boat Launch — Deerfield.
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.
