Lake Profile

Itasca County is loaded with a wide variety of fishing lakes – lakes large and small, lakes that seem to attract anglers for specific fish species, lakes well-known, lakes heavily pressured, and lakes well off

You might stumble upon a few keeping-size perch, and the lake does have whitefish and burbot, but that’s about it. It once had a decent northern pike population, but those fish are mostly gone now.

There are three connected basins that make up Becker County’s Detroit Lake. The largest is known as Big Detroit, to its west is Little Detroit Lake, and the smallest is Curfman Lake to the southwest

There isn’t anything real complicated about catching fish on Crow Wing County’s Bay Lake: Find a weedline and you’re likely going to catch something.
Located just south of Deerwood, this 2,329-acre lake is a

There are select lakes in this state with the ability to handle intense fishing pressure yet continue to provide solid multi-species fishing opportunities on a year-round basis.
Hubbard County’s Fish Hook Lake is one

At more than 2,400 acres, White Bear Lake is one of the bigger bodies of water in the east-metro portion of the Twin Cities. It’s a clear-water lake that also has some notable depth, and

There’s a lot for an angler to consider when trying to decipher Bear Island Lake in St. Louis County. Located 10 miles southwest of Ely, Bear Island is a large lake with quite a bit

At more than 8,000 acres, Lake Minnewaska is one of west-central Minnesota’s largest bodies of water. It’s also one of the most popular lakes in this region due to a long history of consistent walleye,

Loon Lake is a 700-acre fishery that sits near the Minnesota/Iowa border in Jackson County. It’s a shallow lake, with a maximum depth of 7 feet, but it’s full of walleyes, which draw anglers from