Long Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Bluegill
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Long Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.

The lake

Long Lake covers 598 acres in Minnesota, across Stevens County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 9 feet (2.7 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.

Long Lake, Long Lake, NY.jpg
Mwanner · CC BY-SA 3.0

7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • 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.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Orangespotted Sunfish, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.

Sunrise and ice on Long Lake at Long Lake Conservation Center in Palisade, Minnesota (53569534183).jpg
Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States · CC BY 2.0

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 9 ft (2.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 37 depth contour lines for this water.

Sunrise and cattails at Long Lake Conservation Center in Palisade, Minnesota (53569534378).jpg
Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States · CC BY 2.0
  • 0–1 ft: 18.8% of the water
  • 1–2 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 7% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 8.1% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 6.2% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 8.1% of the water
  • 7–8 ft: 10.2% of the water
  • 8–9 ft: 28.3% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Long Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. 9-F Sportsmans Club.

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.

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.