Echo Lake fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout

Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Burbot
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Echo Lake Charleston.

The lake

Echo Lake covers 535 acres in Vermont, across Orleans County. It is a lake: 95.3% of it is 110 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 121 feet (36.9 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.

Depth: down to 121 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 121 ft (36.9 m). 95.3% of the water is 110 feet or shallower. We hold 13 depth contours for this water, drawn from 66,772 soundings.

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  • 0–10 ft: 10.7% of the water
  • 10–20 ft: 13% of the water
  • 20–30 ft: 10.6% of the water
  • 30–40 ft: 10% of the water
  • 40–50 ft: 8.9% of the water
  • 50–60 ft: 8.1% of the water
  • 60–70 ft: 8% of the water
  • 70–80 ft: 7.2% of the water
  • 80–90 ft: 6% of the water
  • 90–100 ft: 6% of the water
  • 100–110 ft: 6.8% of the water
  • 110–120 ft: 4.6% of the water

7 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon

  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Burbot — Feeding water: 40–50°F.

Also recorded here: Chain Pickerel, White Sucker, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Golden Shiner.

Stocking: 46,597 fish, 2009–2026

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 46,597 fish released into this water from 2009 to 2026.

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  • Rainbow Trout: 40,620 in 2009–2026
  • Lake Trout: 2,252 in 2009–2026

One more species on the stocking list.

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 18–29.5 feet on our readings, averaging 22.7 feet, from 108 readings. Our water temperature readings average 61°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.8. These readings span 2017–2025.

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1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Echo Lake Charleston — restrooms. Charleston, F&W. website anrweb.vt.gov/FWD/FW/FishingAccessAreas.aspx?ID=25

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

  • 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.