Gate Lake

St. Louis County, Minnesota - DNR stocking history, depth and survey data

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 69079500

Gate Lake has no DNR stocking rows in LakeFinder; this page carries its DNR depth, access and survey data.

• Gate Lake shows no stocking records in Minnesota DNR LakeFinder as of September 2, 2026.
• Maximum depth 33 ft; surface area 13 acres, 10 littoral acres, 0.7 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
• 1 public access on the DNR list.
• Most recent DNR fish survey: July 2, 1990 (standard survey).
• St. Louis County, nearest town Idington; DNR lake number (DOW) 69079500.

Depth map

Bathymetric contours from the Minnesota DNR lake survey mapped 7/6/1981 (orig map); depths in feet. Simplified for the web; not for navigation.

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 1990

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.

WHITE SUCKER AND 1 BLUEGILL WERE THE ONLY FISH SAMPLED IN 1990. HISTORICAL NETTING SAMPLED ONLY WHITE SUCKER. MONO-SEX BLUEGILL STOCKING WAS DONE IN 1988; 93 ADULT MALES @ 5/LB. WERE STOCKED IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE A LIMITING REPRODUCTION. THE ONE BLUEGILL CAPTURED IN THIS ASSESSMENT WAS 9.3 INCHES LONG. THE GROWTH PATTERN FROM SCALE READING INDICATED VERY RAPID GROWTH AFTER THE FISH WAS INTRODUCED TO THIS BODY OF WATER. UNFORTUNATELY THE 1988-89 WINTER WAS SEVERE, BUT NO OXYGEN MONITORING WAS DONE TO DETERMINE IF THERE WAS A PARTIAL WINTERKILL. SUBSEQUENTLY WE DON'T KNOW IF THE LOW BLUEGILL CATCH WAS DUE TO INADEQUATE NUMBERS STOCKED, OR DEPLETION FROM WINTERKILL.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, July 2, 1990.

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