Harvey Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Trout
Target species: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Lake Trout, Chain Pickerel, White Sucker, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Harvey Lake.
The lake
Harvey Lake covers 353 acres in Vermont, across Caledonia County. It is a lake: 95.9% of it is 130 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 140 feet (42.6 m). Our records hold 10 species for this water.
Depth: down to 140 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 140 ft (42.6 m). 95.9% of the water is 130 feet or shallower. We hold 21 depth contours for this water, drawn from 19,101 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 9% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 6.9% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 6.9% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 120–130 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 130–139 ft: 4.2% of the water
7 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°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.
Also recorded here: Pumpkinseed, Slimy Sculpin, Golden Shiner.
Stocking: 46,716 fish, 2009–2026
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 46,716 fish released into this water from 2009 to 2026.
- Rainbow Trout: 23,211 in 2009–2026
- Lake Trout: 10,685 in 2009–2013
One more species on the stocking list.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 13.4–25.6 feet on our readings, averaging 19.8 feet, from 138 readings. Our water temperature readings average 73°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8. These readings span 2017–2025.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Harvey Lake — restrooms. Barnet, 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.
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.
