Lake Salem fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Largemouth Bass
Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Brown Trout
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at David H Wood.
The lake
Lake Salem covers 596 acres in Vermont, across Orleans County. It is a lake: 97.2% of it is 60 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 67.2 feet (20.5 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.
Depth: down to 67.2 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 67.2 ft (20.5 m). 97.2% of the water is 60 feet or shallower. We hold 14 depth contours for this water, drawn from 55,579 soundings.
- 0–5 ft: 14.9% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 10.9% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 2.8% of the water
- 65–67 ft: 0.1% of the water
7 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°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.
Also recorded here: Burbot, Chain Pickerel, White Sucker, Yellow Perch, Brown Bullhead.
Stocking: 86,677 fish, 2018–2026
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department records list 86,677 fish released into this water from 2018 to 2026.
- Walleye: 86,677 in 2018–2026
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 10.4–16.4 feet on our readings, averaging 13.5 feet, from 78 readings. Our water temperature readings average 68°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.2. These readings span 2017–2025.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.
- David H Wood — restrooms. Derby, F&W. website vtfishandwildlife.com/access-areas-map.cfm
- Little Salem Lake — Derby, 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.
