Chittenden Reservoir fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, White Sucker

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, White Sucker, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Chittenden Reservoir.

The reservoir

Chittenden Reservoir covers 748 acres in Vermont, across Rutland County. It is a reservoir: 93.4% of it is 28 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 37 feet (11.3 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.

5 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
  • Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.

Also recorded here: Brown Trout, Brown Bullhead, Golden Shiner.

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Depth: down to 37 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 37 ft (11.3 m). 93.4% of the water is 28 feet or shallower. We hold 56 depth contours for this water, drawn from 87,190 soundings.

  • 0–2 ft: 2.2% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 5.1% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 5.8% of the water
  • 10–12 ft: 6% of the water
  • 12–14 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 14–16 ft: 7.9% of the water
  • 16–18 ft: 6.8% of the water
  • 18–20 ft: 7.4% of the water
  • 20–22 ft: 8.5% of the water
  • 22–24 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 24–26 ft: 9.5% of the water
  • 26–28 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 28–30 ft: 6.3% of the water
  • 30–32 ft: 0.4% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp and 2 shore access points.

  • Chittenden Reservoir — restrooms. Chittenden, F&W. website vtfishandwildlife.com/node/476

Shore access for bank fishing

  • Chittenden Reservoir Access Area — Chittenden. 218 Dam Road, Chittenden 05737 · website vtfishandwildlife.com/node/476
  • Lefferts Pond — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/gmfl/recreation/recarea/?recid=64929 · hours: Day use only: open 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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

Water clarity runs 11.5–15.7 feet on our readings, averaging 13.6 feet, from 56 readings. Our water temperature readings average 62°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.3. These readings span 2017–2020. The latest reading is from 2020, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Vermont DEC — Vermont DEC: depth soundings: 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.