Loon Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo

Target species: Northern Pike, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Bullhead, White Sucker, Black Crappie, White Crappie
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Loon Lake Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.

The lake

Loon Lake covers 781 acres in Minnesota, across Blue Earth 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.
  • 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.
  • White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

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

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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 10 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–1 ft: 11.7% of the water
  • 1–2 ft: 8.3% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 66.5% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Loon Lake Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. 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.

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.