Best landlocked salmon lakes in New Brunswick
21 New Brunswick waters hold landlocked salmon, 18 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Lake-dwelling Atlantic salmon that lives and dies by the smelt run. Ice-out surface fishing at its finest.
- Grand Lake — 100 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #1: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- East Grand Lake — 127 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Grand Lake — 120 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 2 public access sites
- Spednic Lake — 54.1 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #4: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · 1 public access site
- Sisson Branch Reservoir — 77 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Long Lake — 90 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Trousers Lake — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Loch Alva — 144 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- First Lake — 55 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Lac Baker — 125 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #10: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Lake Utopia — 94 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #11: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Digdeguash Lake — 65 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #12: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- East Branch Reservoir — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #13: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Serpentine Lake — 80 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #14: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Seven Mile Lake — 75 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #15: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- West Long Lake — 57 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #16: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Glasier Lake — 118 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #17: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Loch Lomond — 269 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #18: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Sherwood Lake — 57 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #19: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Skiff Lake — 58.1 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked SalmonWhy #20: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
- Chamcook Lake — 137 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook TroutWhy #21: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
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When to fish landlocked salmon in New Brunswick
- Spring 1–15 ft — The legendary ice-out bite: salmon follow spawning smelt to tributary mouths and windblown shorelines, right on the surface.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Salmon hold just above the thermocline with the smelt schools — depth control decides the day.
- Fall 5–30 ft — Turnover scatters bait and salmon shallow; spawners stage off tributary mouths, hot-tempered and territorial.
- Winter 10–40 ft — Where winter seasons allow, salmon cruise for smelt under the ice — sewn bait near a drop is the classic set.
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