Centerville Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, Black Crappie, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Bluegill
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Centerville Lake Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.
The lake
Centerville Lake covers 477 acres in Minnesota, across Anoka County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 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.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Bowfin, 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 28 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 8.8% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 3–5 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 5–7 ft: 7.8% of the water
- 7–9 ft: 7.2% of the water
- 9–11 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 11–13 ft: 8.2% of the water
- 13–15 ft: 46.4% of the water
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 68°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. The coldest single reading we hold is 42°F and the warmest is 83°F; the warmest monthly average is 77°F. pH averages 8.5. These readings span 2018–2025.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Centerville Lake Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. Anoka County.
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.
