Great Averill Pond fishing: Brook Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout

Target species: Brook Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, White Sucker
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Great Averill Pond.

The lake

Great Averill Pond covers 833 acres in Vermont, across Essex County. It is a lake: 92.4% of it is 75 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 102 feet (31.1 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.

Depth: down to 102 ft at the deepest measured point

Deepest measured point: 102 ft (31.1 m). 92.4% of the water is 75 feet or shallower. We hold 23 depth contours for this water, drawn from 134,365 soundings.

  • 0–5 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 13.1% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 9.5% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 5% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 5.6% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 7% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 4.6% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 4.1% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 3.8% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 3.8% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 4.2% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 70–75 ft: 3% of the water
  • 75–80 ft: 3.3% of the water
  • 80–85 ft: 2.4% of the water
  • 85–90 ft: 1% of the water
  • 90–95 ft: 0.8% of the water
  • 95–100 ft: 0.2% of the water

5 target fish, led by Brook Trout

  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.

Also recorded here: Brown Bullhead, Golden Shiner.

Stocking: 26,765 fish, 2009–2026

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 26,765 fish released into this water from 2009 to 2026.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2023
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2023 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain
  • Brook Trout: 17,400 in 2009–2019
  • Rainbow Trout: 9,365 in 2020–2026

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Great Averill Pond — restrooms. Averill, F&W. website anrweb.vt.gov/fwd/fw/FishingAccessAreas.aspx?ID=36

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

Our water temperature readings average 52°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.1. 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.