Silver Lake fishing: Walleye, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie
Target species: Walleye, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, White Crappie, Green Sunfish
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Silver Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.
The lake
Silver Lake covers 632 acres in Minnesota, across Sibley County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 6 feet (1.8 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
5 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Green Sunfish — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
Also recorded here: Common Carp.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 6 ft (1.8 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 25 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 2–3 ft: 13.8% of the water
- 3–4 ft: 26% of the water
- 4–5 ft: 27.5% of the water
- 5–6 ft: 23.9% of the water
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Silver 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
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.
