Bass Lake (Aitkin County)
Aitkin County, Minnesota - DNR stocking history, depth and survey data
Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 01018300
Bass Lake (Aitkin County) has no DNR stocking rows in LakeFinder; this page carries its DNR depth, access and survey data.
- Bass Lake (Aitkin County) shows no stocking records in Minnesota DNR LakeFinder as of .
- Maximum depth 38 ft, mean depth 11 ft; surface area 32 acres, 16 littoral acres, 0.9 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
- 1 public access on the DNR list.
- Most recent DNR fish survey: (standard survey).
- Aitkin County, nearest town Aitkin; DNR lake number (DOW) 01018300.
Depth map
Bathymetric contours from the Minnesota DNR lake survey mapped 5/17/1972 (orig map); depths in feet. Simplified for the web; not for navigation.
Public accesses
| Type | Owner | Where |
|---|---|---|
| O | UKN | - There is no public access on Bass Lake. |
DNR fish survey, 2002
| Species | Gear | Catch per net | Total catch | Avg lb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largemouth bass | Standard electrofishing | 28.00 | 14 | 0.72 |
| Bluegill | Standard trap nets | 11.89 | 107 | 0.25 |
| Yellow bullhead | Standard trap nets | 8.33 | 75 | 0.58 |
| Pumpkinseed | Standard trap nets | 4.89 | 44 | 0.35 |
| Largemouth bass | Standard trap nets | 0.89 | 8 | 1.27 |
| Northern pike | Standard trap nets | 0.78 | 7 | 1.58 |
| Black crappie | Standard trap nets | 0.78 | 7 | 0.29 |
| Bowfin (dogfish) | Standard trap nets | 0.33 | 3 | 4.12 |
| Walleye | Standard trap nets | 0.11 | 1 | 8.60 |
| Northern pike | Standard gill nets | 9.00 | 27 | 2.20 |
| Black crappie | Standard gill nets | 3.67 | 11 | 0.16 |
| Yellow bullhead | Standard gill nets | 3.00 | 9 | 0.56 |
| Bluegill | Standard gill nets | 2.67 | 8 | 0.15 |
| Largemouth bass | Standard gill nets | 2.00 | 6 | 1.00 |
| Bowfin (dogfish) | Standard gill nets | 1.00 | 3 | 4.31 |
| Brown bullhead | Standard gill nets | 0.33 | 1 | 2.09 |
| Pumpkinseed | Standard gill nets | 0.33 | 1 | 0.14 |
Catch per net (CPUE) is the DNR survey's count per gill net or trap net set; higher means more of that species were sampled, not a fishing forecast. Top species per gear shown; where we have no verified common name for a DNR code, the code itself is shown.
Bass Lake is a small lake located 2 miles west of the town of Aitkin in west central Aitkin County. Most of the shoreline is marsh or bog. Access to the lake is limited with most of the public angling taking place from shore along the highway right-of-way.Bass Lake does have an abundant northern pike population, and despite the small size of the lake there are some nice sized fish in that population. The average northern pike sampled was over 20 inches long with several fish over 25 inches being caught. The bluegill and pumpkinseed sunfish, while not overly abundant are of large size. Over one-half of the bluegill and almost two-thirds of the pumpkinseed sunfish sampled were greater than 7 inch long, with fish from both species sampled that were over 9 inches in length. Black crappie, while within the normal range of abundance for this lake type tended to be small in size. The average black crappie sample was 7 to 8 inches long with the largest fish caught just over 9 inches long.Largemouth bass appear to be doing very well in Bass Lake. Catch rates for the different types of sampling gear were all within their normal ranges for this lake type, with several quality size fish caught. The mean length of largemouth bass caught ranged from 11 inches from the electro-fishing sample to almost 13 inches long in the trap net sample. Three of the 28 total largemouth bass caught were over 16 inches long, one in each gear type.
Minnesota DNR survey narrative, .
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