Platte Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye

Lake · Minnesota · Pine Center, 3.6 mi away

Platte Lake, Minnesota: Northern Pike. 94.5% of it is 13 feet deep or less. 1 trailer ramp. At least 20 ft deep.

Lake

Surface area: 1,661 acres2.6 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 20 ftmoderately deep
Fish species: 15
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Pine Center3.6 mi

Platte Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Walleye

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

The lake

Platte Lake covers 1,661 acres in Minnesota, across 2 counties: Crow Wing and Morrison. It is a lake: 94.5% of it is 13 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 20 feet (6.1 m). Our records hold 15 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.
White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Bowfin, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 20 ft (6.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 94.5% of the water is 13 feet or shallower. We hold 99 depth contour lines for this water.

0–1 ft: 6.3% of the water
1–2 ft: 5.8% of the water
2–3 ft: 5.6% of the water
3–4 ft: 5.4% of the water
4–5 ft: 6.1% of the water
5–6 ft: 7.5% of the water
6–7 ft: 7% of the water
7–8 ft: 5.6% of the water
8–9 ft: 6.7% of the water
9–10 ft: 16% of the water
10–11 ft: 16.4% of the water
11–13 ft: 6.1% of the water
13–15 ft: 4% of the water
15–17 ft: 0.9% of the water
17–19 ft: 0.4% of the water
19–20 ft: 0.2% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Platte Lake Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. 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

With 94.5% of the water 13 feet or less, low level turns the flats into hazards. 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.