Wood Lake fishing: Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish

Target species: Walleye, Bigmouth Buffalo, Channel Catfish, Freshwater Drum, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Wood Lake Public Water Access Site, 1 lane.

The lake

Wood Lake covers 461 acres in Minnesota, across Yellow Medicine County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 7 feet (2.1 m). Our records hold 10 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Walleye

  • 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.
  • Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, 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 40 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 3.5% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 11.2% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 7.6% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 8.8% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 69% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Wood 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.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 75°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.5. These readings span 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.
  • EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map, 2007.
  • 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.