Center Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Channel Catfish
The lake
Center Lake covers 256 acres in Iowa, across Dickinson County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 16 feet (4.9 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
Stocking: 1,849,681 fish, 1999–2025
Iowa DNR records list 1,849,681 fish released into this water from 1999 to 2025.
- Walleye: 1,694,027 in 2001–2025
- Northern Pike: 111,237 in 2000–2019
- Largemouth Bass: 26,675 in 1999–2024
- Channel Catfish: 17,742 in 1999–2016
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 16 ft (4.9 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 34 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 9.6% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 2.7% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 9.5% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 9% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 11% of the water
- 14–15 ft: 7.4% of the water
- 15–16 ft: 39.8% of the water
4 target fish, led by Northern Pike
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Common Carp.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.5. These readings span 2017–2024.
Where this data comes from
- Iowa DNR — Iowa DNR: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
