Big Kandiyohi Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye

Big Kandiyohi Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye

Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, Black Bullhead
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Big Kandiyohi Lake (E) Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.

The lake

Big Kandiyohi Lake covers 2,691 acres in Minnesota, across Kandiyohi County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 17 species for this water.

7 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.
• Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
• Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
• Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
• Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.

Also recorded here: White Sucker, Black Crappie, White Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 102 depth contour lines for this water.

• 0–2 ft: 5.3% of the water
• 2–4 ft: 5.8% of the water
• 4–6 ft: 6.2% of the water
• 6–8 ft: 6.9% of the water
• 8–10 ft: 7.4% of the water
• 10–12 ft: 8% of the water
• 12–14 ft: 9.4% of the water
• 14–15 ft: 51% of the water

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.

• Big Kandiyohi Lake (E) Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
• Big Kandiyohi Lake (W) Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. Kandiyohi County.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 71°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.6. These readings span 2018–2023.

What is hard here

Only 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

• Minnesota DNR — Minnesota DNR: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
• Minnesota DNR — Minnesota DNR: reported depths: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
• 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.