Loon Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Black Bullhead, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, Freshwater Drum
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Loon Lake (E) Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Loon Lake covers 702 acres in Minnesota, across Jackson County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 8 feet (2.4 m). Our records hold 17 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.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Freshwater Drum — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Shortnose Gar, White Sucker, White Bass, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 8 ft (2.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 27 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 2.8% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 6.5% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 10.4% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 14.2% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 32.7% of the water
- 6–7 ft: 33.2% of the water
- 7–8 ft: 0.2% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.
- Loon Lake (E) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Jackson County.
- Loon Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
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 69°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.8. These readings span 2022. The latest reading is from 2022, 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.
- 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.
