Silver Lake fishing: Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Target species: Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Boat Landing.
The lake
Silver Lake covers 335 acres in New Hampshire, across Cheshire County. It is a lake: 93% of it is 65 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 90 feet (27.4 m). Our records hold 3 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. 93% of the water is 65 feet or shallower. We hold 37 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 2.7% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 12.2% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 10.8% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 7.8% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 7.8% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 2.1% of the water
- 70–75 ft: 1.8% of the water
- 75–80 ft: 1.4% of the water
- 80–85 ft: 1.2% of the water
- 85–90 ft: 0.5% of the water
Stocking: 2,646 fish in 2026
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department records list 2,646 fish released into this water in 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 2,300 in 2026
One more species on the stocking list.
3 target fish, led by Smallmouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp and 1 shore access point.
- Boat Landing — Harrisville.
Shore access for bank fishing
- Sucker Brook Cove — Nelson.
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 72°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 6.3. These readings span 2016–2024.
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.
