Lake Hortonia fishing: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, White Sucker
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Cisco, Rock Bass
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Hortonia Lake.
The lake
Lake Hortonia covers 472 acres in Vermont, across Rutland County. It is a lake: 92.3% of it is 48 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 58.3 feet (17.8 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Brown Bullhead, Golden Shiner, American Eel.
Depth: down to 58.3 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 58.3 ft (17.8 m). 92.3% of the water is 48 feet or shallower. We hold 47 depth contours for this water, drawn from 42,407 soundings.
- 0–3 ft: 8% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 16.3% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 16.8% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 13.3% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 2.2% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 3% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 2.2% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 2.2% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 2.8% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 2.9% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 2.7% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 2.5% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 54–57 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 57–58 ft: 0.3% of the water
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 68°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.1. These readings span 2017–2025.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.
- Hortonia Lake — restrooms. Sudbury, F&W.
- Hortonia Lake Dam — restrooms. Hubbardton, F&W. website vtfishandwildlife.com/access-areas-map.cfm
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: 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 2 public ramps are 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.
