Hill Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, Shorthead Redhorse, White Sucker
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Hill Lake (N) Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.
The lake
Hill Lake covers 795 acres in Minnesota, across Aitkin County. It is a lake: 94.2% of it is 39 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 45 feet (13.7 m). Our records hold 15 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.
- Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Shorthead Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Also recorded here: Black Crappie, Bluegill, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Bowfin, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 45 ft (13.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 94.2% of the water is 39 feet or shallower. We hold 67 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 7.6% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 6.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 8.8% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 12.1% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 2.3% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Hill Lake (N) Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms.
- Hill Lake (S) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
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 58°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.9. These readings span 2016–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
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.
