Lime Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, Black Bullhead, White Sucker
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lime Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Lime Lake covers 319 acres in Minnesota, across Murray County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 5 feet (1.5 m). Our records hold 12 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.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Also recorded here: Black Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 5 ft (1.5 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 8 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 16.9% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 22% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 30.7% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 30.5% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Lime Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
- Lime Lake (S) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane, restrooms. Murray County.
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 77°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 9.2. These readings span 2025.
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.
