Long Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Burbot, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Black Crappie
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Long Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Long Lake covers 349 acres in Minnesota, across Isanti County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 10 feet (3 m). Our records hold 14 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.
- Burbot — Feeding water: 40–50°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Bowfin, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 10 ft (3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. EPA NLA measured 13.5 ft (4.1 m) at one sampling site: that is not the maximum of the water. We hold 34 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 9.6% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 10.6% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 13.5% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 19.8% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 12.9% of the water
- 8–9 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 9–10 ft: 10.7% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Long Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
- Long Lake (W) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Stanford Township.
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 64°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8. These readings span 2017–2019. The latest reading is from 2019, 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.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: 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.
