Best brown trout lakes in Vermont
17 Vermont waters hold brown trout. 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. Wary, nocturnal-leaning predator. Shorelines and inflows in cold months; the thermocline in summer.
- Lake Bomoseen — 65 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Otter Creek — 8 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Common Carp
- Waterbury Reservoir — 100 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill, Rainbow Trout
- Seymour Lake — 167 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
- Green River Reservoir — 93 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bluegill, Yellow Perch
- Batten Kill — 5 ft max · Brown Trout, Brook Trout
- Holland Pond — 39 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Chain Pickerel, Brown Bullhead
- Lake Rescue — 95 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
- Greenwood Lake — 41 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch
- Woodward Reservoir — 48 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Forest Lake — 97 ft max · Brown Trout, Brown Bullhead
- South Pond — 66 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
- Newark Pond — 31 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout
- Silver Lake — 70 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bluegill, Rainbow Trout
- Silver Lake — 32 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bluegill, Rainbow Trout
- South Pond — 35 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
- Forest Lake — 13 ft max · Brown Trout, Brown Bullhead
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When to fish brown trout in Vermont
- Spring 3–25 ft — Cold-water browns hug shorelines, river mouths and mud lines — often in a few feet of water early and late.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Browns sit at the thermocline by day and slide shallow after dark — the night troll takes the giants.
- Fall 5–30 ft — Spawn-run browns stage off tributaries and gravel shorelines, aggressive and territorial.
- Winter 5–35 ft — Browns feed all winter — nearshore when bait is in, deeper breaks otherwise.
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