Gull Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Black Crappie
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Gull Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Gull Lake covers 2,252 acres in Minnesota, across Beltrami County. It is a lake: 94.8% of it is 22 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 25 feet (7.6 m). Our records hold 12 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.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Rock Bass, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 25 ft (7.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 94.8% of the water is 22 feet or shallower. We hold 54 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 13.5% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 12.8% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 9.3% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 6.5% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 7% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 4.6% of the water
- 24–25 ft: 0.7% of the water
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Gull Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms. 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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 70°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2025.
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.
