Silver Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Channel Catfish
Target species: Northern Pike, Walleye, Channel Catfish
The lake
Silver Lake covers 1,020 acres in Iowa, across Dickinson County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 8 feet (2.4 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.
Stocking: 8,328,030 fish, 2012–2024
Iowa DNR records list 8,328,030 fish released into this water from 2012 to 2024.
- Walleye: 8,318,808 in 2012–2024
- Channel Catfish: 8,688 in 2012–2022
- Northern Pike: 534 in 2012
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 8 ft (2.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 41 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 1.7% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 9.3% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 18.6% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 53.8% of the water
3 target fish, led by Northern Pike
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
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 8.1. 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.
