Fountain Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Fountain Lake, Brookside Landing Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Fountain Lake covers 660 acres in Minnesota, across Freeborn County. It is a lake: 93.3% of it is 8 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 10 feet (3 m). Our records hold 16 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 Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, White Sucker, White Crappie, Green Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp, Goldfish.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 10 ft (3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.3% of the water is 8 feet or shallower. We hold 53 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–1 ft: 27.6% of the water
- 1–3 ft: 11.7% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 12.7% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 12.8% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 13.6% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 6.7% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Fountain Lake, Brookside Landing Public Water Access Site — 1 lane.
- Fountain Lake, North Edgewater Bay Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms.
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
Water clarity runs 1.5–3.4 feet on our readings, averaging 2.4 feet, from 92 readings. Our water temperature readings average 73°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2025.
What is hard here
With 93.3% of the water 8 feet or less, low level turns the flats into hazards. 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.
- 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.
