Island Pond fishing: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout, Burbot
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Island Pond.
The lake
Island Pond covers 608 acres in Vermont, across Essex County. It is a lake: 92.3% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 58.8 feet (17.9 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Burbot — Feeding water: 40–50°F.
Also recorded here: Chain Pickerel, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Brown Bullhead, Golden Shiner.
Stocking: 231,325 fish, 2009–2026
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 231,325 fish released into this water from 2009 to 2026.
- Walleye: 195,695 in 2014–2026
- Brown Trout: 22,230 in 2009–2026
- Rainbow Trout: 12,000 in 2009–2021
One more species on the stocking list.
Depth: down to 58.8 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 58.8 ft (17.9 m). 92.3% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 43 depth contours for this water, drawn from 98,689 soundings.
- 0–3 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 11% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 13% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 6.2% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 4.4% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 1.3% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 1.3% of the water
- 54–57 ft: 0.7% of the water
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Island Pond — restrooms. Brighton, F&W. website anrweb.vt.gov/FWD/FW/FishingAccessAreas.aspx?ID=49
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 59°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.4. These readings span 2018–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, 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.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map, 2007.
- 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.
