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Best landlocked salmon lakes in New Brunswick

20 New Brunswick waters hold landlocked salmon, 17 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.

1. Grand Lake — 100 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
2. Grand Lake — 120 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
3. Spednic Lake — 54.1 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
4. Sisson Branch Reservoir — 77 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
5. Long Lake — 90 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
6. Trousers Lake — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
7. Loch Alva — 144 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
8. First Lake — 55 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
9. Lac Baker — 125 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
10. Lake Utopia — 94 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
11. Digdeguash Lake — 65 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
12. East Branch Reservoir — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
13. Serpentine Lake — 80 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
14. Seven Mile Lake — 75 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
15. West Long Lake — 57 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
16. Glasier Lake — 118 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
17. Chamcook Lake — 137 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout, Brook Trout
18. Loch Lomond — 269 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
19. Sherwood Lake — 57 ft max · survey depth data · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon
20. Skiff Lake — 58.1 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Landlocked Salmon

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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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