Lura Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Black Bullhead, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish
Boat: 4 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lura Lake (E) Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.
The lake
Lura Lake covers 1,302 acres in Minnesota, across 2 counties: Blue Earth and Faribault. 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 Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Black Crappie, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.
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 33 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–1 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 1–2 ft: 7% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 72.3% of the water
4 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 4 trailer ramps.
- Lura Lake (E) Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. Blue Earth County.
- Lura Lake, Daly Park Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. Blue Earth County.
- Lura Lake (NW) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
- Lura Lake, Lura Lake Sports Club Lodge Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Blue Earth County.
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 4 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 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.8. These readings span 2018. The latest reading is from 2018, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Only 4 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.
