Trumbull Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Yellow Perch

Target species: Northern Pike, Yellow Perch

The lake

Trumbull Lake covers 1,082 acres in Iowa, across Clay County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 4 feet (1.2 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Stocking: 1,387,309 fish, 2000–2024

Iowa DNR records list 1,387,309 fish released into this water from 2000 to 2024.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2023
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2023 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain
  • Northern Pike: 1,079,020 in 2000–2022
  • Yellow Perch: 308,289 in 2014–2024

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 4 ft (1.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 21 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 13% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 19.5% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 67.6% of the water

2 target fish, led by Northern Pike

  • Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.

Also recorded here: Silver Carp.

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.