Crystal Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, White Sucker, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Crystal Lake.
The lake
Crystal Lake covers 771 acres in Vermont, across Orleans County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 106 feet (32.4 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.
Depth: down to 106 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 106 ft (32.4 m). We hold 19 depth contours for this water, drawn from 92,488 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 11.1% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 6% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 7.6% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 13.2% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 24.2% of the water
- 100–106 ft: 10.3% of the water
7 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Chain Pickerel — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
Also recorded here: Brown Bullhead.
Stocking: 19,143 fish, 2009–2026
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 19,143 fish released into this water from 2009 to 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 16,718 in 2009–2026
One more species on the stocking list.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Crystal Lake — restrooms. Barton, F&W. website vtfishandwildlife.com/access-areas-map.cfm
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.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 15.4–26 feet on our readings, averaging 20.6 feet, from 104 readings. Our water temperature readings average 49°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.5. These readings span 2017–2025.
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.
