Moose Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Rock Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Moose Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Moose Lake covers 401 acres in Minnesota, across Itasca County. It is a lake: 93.1% of it is 42 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 55 feet (16.8 m). Our records hold 10 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.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Brown Bullhead.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 55 ft (16.8 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 93.1% of the water is 42 feet or shallower. We hold 57 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 1.8% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 8.2% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 5% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 2.3% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 1.4% of the water
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Moose Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. DNR Division of Parks and Trails. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/chippewa/recreation/recarea/?recid=26648 · hours: Open 24 hours/day
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.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 70°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.3. These readings span 2020–2021. The latest reading is from 2021, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
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.
