While the lake has a 14-inch size limit and a five-fish daily bag limit, local fishermen release most of their fish in an effort to keep size and numbers above average for the area.
Although the lake is just 575 acres in size, anglers throughout central Minnesota are aware of its ability to produce walleyes and crappies year after year.
In surveys of the fishery, the biggest walleye went about 28 inches and the biggest muskie went about 48 inches.
With a healthy walleye population, nice panfish, good numbers of largemouth bass, and a pike population that has improved in size structure in recent years, Minnie Belle is one of the county’s destination fishing lakes.
In the most recent general netting survey of the fishery in Long Lake, biologists collected 1,246 fish including 14 species.
As waters warm, crappie fishing heats up across the state. Good fishing for crappies has already been reported at a number of lakes.
How ice-out and shore fishing are coming along – it won’t be long before the ice is gone and it will be game on for open-water fishing.
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