Lake Willoughby fishing: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Longnose Sucker
Target species: Atlantic Salmon, Smallmouth Bass, Longnose Sucker, White Sucker, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Willoughby.
The lake
Lake Willoughby covers 1,742 acres in Vermont, across Orleans County. It is a lake: 92% of it is 260 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 337 feet (102.8 m). Our records hold 10 species for this water.
Depth: down to 337 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 337 ft (102.8 m). 92% of the water is 260 feet or shallower. We hold 52 depth contours for this water, drawn from 30,276 soundings.
- 0–20 ft: 13.7% of the water
- 20–40 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 40–60 ft: 7.6% of the water
- 60–80 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 80–100 ft: 6% of the water
- 100–120 ft: 6% of the water
- 120–140 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 140–160 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 160–180 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 180–200 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 200–220 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 220–240 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 240–260 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 260–280 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 280–300 ft: 3.4% of the water
- 300–320 ft: 0.3% of the water
7 target fish, led by Atlantic Salmon
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Longnose Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
Also recorded here: Rainbow Trout, Golden Shiner, Banded Killifish.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 19.5–35.1 feet on our readings, averaging 27 feet, from 134 readings. Our water temperature readings average 56°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.8. These readings span 2017–2025.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Lake Willoughby — restrooms. Westmore, F&W.
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.
