Chamcook Lake

At a glance

Area

341 ha (841 acres)

Mean depth (estimated)

≈ 9.0 m (30 ft)

Mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016)

Who lives here

• Smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieuReported · 2021 · Nonindigenous species occurrences: U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database, via GBIF (CC0 1.0)

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Getting on the water

No public access site is listed for this water yet.

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

• Smallmouth bassClosed

As of November 1, 2026, for a fish of any size.

Official regulations: New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development

Official sources:

• Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations (SOR/93-55) (s. 12(1) (no angling for sport fish from two hours after sunset to two hours before sunrise) and s. 2 (sport fish, trout))

What's biting

Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.

From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.

Questions

What fish are in Chamcook Lake?

Cited sources list Smallmouth bass. A fish that isn't listed may still be there.

What are the fishing rules on Chamcook Lake?

HuntGrid's verified summary, for a fish of any size: Smallmouth bass: closed. A summary, not the law: check the official regulations from New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development.

About this page

Sources and licences:

• Natural Resources Canada, CanVec Hydro Features (1:50,000). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.; Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB); Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Boundary Files (census divisions and subdivisions, provinces). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Lake mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016, Nature Communications 7:13603), CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0
• Nonindigenous species occurrences: U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database, via GBIF (CC0 1.0) · CC0 1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, checked 2026-10-18): the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database is published through GBIF as "no copyright" — "The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law". GBIF dataset d6cc311c-c5ab-4f23-9a20-10514f9eb9c4, licence CC0_1_0; cite U.S. Geological Survey, Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database.

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above; the map under it is OpenStreetMap's, credited on the map. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.