Round Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo

Target species: Northern Pike, Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, Freshwater Drum, River Redhorse, Shortnose Gar
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Round Lake (E) Public Water Access Site, 2 lanes.

The lake

Round Lake covers 931 acres in Minnesota, across Jackson County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 7 feet (2.1 m). Our records hold 16 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.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Freshwater Drum — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • River Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • Shortnose Gar — Feeding water: 65–80°F.

Also recorded here: Black Bullhead, White Sucker, White Bass, Black Crappie, White Crappie, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Common Carp.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 7 ft (2.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 9 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 5.7% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 6.2% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 6.3% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 9.2% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 72.7% of the water

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.

  • Round Lake (E) Public Water Access Site — 2 lanes, restrooms. DNR Division of Parks and Trails.
  • Round Lake (S) Public Water Access Site — 1 lane. Round Lake Township.

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 70°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.7. These readings span 2022–2023.

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.