Big Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye

Lake · Minnesota · Cushing, 5.1 mi away

Big Lake, Minnesota: Largemouth Bass. 93.5% of it is 19 feet deep or less. 1 trailer ramp. At least 20 ft deep.

Lake

Surface area: 320 acres0.5 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 20 ftmoderately deep
Fish species: 13
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Cushing5.1 mi

Big Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, Bluegill, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Black Crappie
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Big Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.

The lake

Big Lake covers 320 acres in Minnesota, across Todd County. It is a lake: 93.5% of it is 19 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 20 feet (6.1 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Bowfin, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 20 ft (6.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.5% of the water is 19 feet or shallower. We hold 43 depth contour lines for this water.

0–1 ft: 13.9% of the water
1–3 ft: 6.4% of the water
3–5 ft: 8% of the water
5–7 ft: 7.6% of the water
7–9 ft: 7.5% of the water
9–11 ft: 7.6% of the water
11–13 ft: 8% of the water
13–15 ft: 9.5% of the water
15–16 ft: 6.9% of the water
16–17 ft: 6.4% of the water
17–18 ft: 6.3% of the water
18–19 ft: 5.4% of the water
19–20 ft: 6.6% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Big Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is 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.