Lake Sarah fishing: Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead
Target species: Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Sarah Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Lake Sarah covers 1,199 acres in Minnesota, across Murray County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 8 feet (2.4 m). Our records hold 10 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Orangespotted Sunfish, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 8 ft (2.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 37 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–1 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 1–3 ft: 3.8% of the water
- 3–5 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 8.3% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 68.5% of the water
3 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 3 trailer ramps.
- Lake Sarah Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
- Sarah Lake (E) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Murray County.
- Sarah Lake (W) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Murray County.
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 9.3. These readings span 2019–2025.
What is hard here
Only 3 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.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map, 2007.
- 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.
