Little Sand Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Shorthead Redhorse

Lake · Minnesota · Oslund, 0.6 mi away

Little Sand Lake, Minnesota: Northern Pike. 1 trailer ramp.

Lake

Surface area: 341 acres0.5 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 15 ftmoderately deep
Fish species: 13
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Oslund0.6 mi

Water claritynow 9.1 ft

Little Sand Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Shorthead Redhorse

Target species: Northern Pike, Walleye, Shorthead Redhorse, Silver Redhorse, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Bluegill
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Little Sand Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.

The lake

Little Sand Lake covers 341 acres in Minnesota, across Itasca County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Northern Pike

Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
Shorthead Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Silver Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Cisco, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Bowfin, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 22 depth contour lines for this water.

0–2 ft: 4.3% of the water
2–4 ft: 8.6% of the water
4–6 ft: 8.6% of the water
6–8 ft: 8.3% of the water
8–10 ft: 8.7% of the water
10–12 ft: 9.1% of the water
12–13 ft: 5% of the water
13–14 ft: 5.7% of the water
14–15 ft: 41.7% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Little Sand Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. 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. pH averages 8.6. These readings span 2019–2021. The latest reading is from 2021, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

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.