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Gypsy Lake

Lake County, Minnesota - DNR stocking history, depth and survey data

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 38066500

DNR records show 10 stocking entries at Gypsy Lake since 2016, most recently brook trout yearlings in 2025 (350 fish).

Gypsy Lake has 10 DNR stocking records across 9 years (2016-2025): brook trout (10).
The most-stocked species by count is brook trout: 3,030 fish on record.
Maximum depth 18 ft, mean depth 7 ft; surface area 15 acres, 8 littoral acres, 0.7 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
Average water clarity (Secchi depth) 5.4 ft.
Fish species DNR lists here: brook trout.
1 public access on the DNR list.
Most recent DNR fish survey: October 7, 2025 (standard survey).
Lake County, nearest town Isabella; DNR lake number (DOW) 38066500.

Depth map

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Bathymetric contours from the Minnesota DNR lake survey; depths in feet. Simplified for the web; not for navigation.

Stocking history

Year	Species	Size	Number	Pounds
2025	Brook Trout	yearlings	350	95.9
2024	Brook Trout	yearlings	350	58.8
2023	Brook Trout	yearlings	350	81.2
2022	Brook Trout	yearlings	190	19.8
2022	Brook Trout	yearlings	40	20.1
2021	Brook Trout	yearlings	350	198.9
2019	Brook Trout⁸	yearlings	350	21.5
2018	Brook Trout⁸	fingerlings	350	17.5
2017	Brook Trout⁸	fingerlings	350	5.8
2016	Brook Trout⁸	fingerlings	350	46.0

⁸ fish cooperatively purchased, raised, and/or stocked by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Field note · Minnesota stocks by year, not by truck day: walleye fry go in within weeks of ice-out, fingerlings and yearlings mostly in fall, and stream trout in spring and fall. A row here means the fish went in during that year; DNR adds the year's rows after the fact, so the current year can look empty until winter.

Public accesses

Type	Owner	Where
CA	USF	200 yd. hiking trail from USFS Rd. #424. The trail starts about 0.25 mile west of State Highway #1, on the south side of USFS Rd. #424. - A 200 yard carry-in trail on the south side of USFS Rd. #424. The trail starts about 0.25 mile west of State Highway #1.

DNR fish survey, 2025

Species	Gear	Catch per net	Total catch	Avg lb
Brook trout	Standard gill nets	2.50	5	0.42

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.

Gypsy Lake is a designated trout lake stocked with 350 catchable sized yearling Brook Trout each spring and located sixteen miles east of Babbitt within the Superior National Forest. There is a 200-yard access trail off US Forest Service 424 with limited parking for one or two vehicles off the shoulder of the road. A standard fisheries survey was completed in October to evaluate recent stocking efforts. The catch totaled five Brook Trout which had all been stocked earlier in the spring. Historic survey data suggests Brook Trout can survive over winter in the lake, but no older fish were captured in 2025.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, October 7, 2025.

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Stocking rows, depths, accesses and survey figures are Minnesota DNR LakeFinder data as of 2026-09-02; contours are the DNR bathymetric survey. Regulations, slot limits and special rules are on the DNR page linked above, not here.

Gypsy Lake

Depth map

Stocking history

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 2025

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