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McKenzie Lake

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

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 15012400

DNR records show 1 stocking entry at McKenzie Lake since 2018, most recently walleye in 2018 (4,950 fish).

McKenzie Lake has 1 DNR stocking record across 1 year (2018-2018): walleye (1).
The most-stocked species by count is walleye: 4,950 fish on record.
Maximum depth 17 ft; surface area 89 acres, 76 littoral acres, 2.5 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
1 public access on the DNR list.
Most recent DNR fish survey: July 8, 1991 (standard survey).
Clearwater County, nearest town Zerkel; DNR lake number (DOW) 15012400.

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
2018	Walleye⁶	-	4,950	2.0

⁶ fish cooperatively purchased, raised, and/or stocked by White Earth Nation.

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
O	county	- COUNTY OWNED DIRT RAMP IN T.144 R.38 S. 35

DNR fish survey, 1991

Species	Gear	Catch per net	Total catch	Avg lb
Pumpkinseed	Standard trap nets	52.00	208	0.07
Yellow perch	Standard trap nets	19.50	78	0.08
Black crappie	Standard trap nets	3.50	14	0.37
Northern pike	Standard trap nets	1.50	6	0.97
Yellow perch	Standard gill nets	45.50	91	0.14
Northern pike	Standard gill nets	9.50	19	1.99
White sucker	Standard gill nets	6.50	13	2.92
Pumpkinseed	Standard gill nets	5.50	11	0.15
Black crappie	Standard gill nets	0.50	1	1.30

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.

NOP, WTS, AND YEP ARE ALL ABOVE THE CLASS 37 QUARTILES FOR NUMBER AND POUNDS PER GILLNETS SET. PMK GREATLY EXCEEDS THE TRAPNET QUARTILES WHILE BLC ARE CLOSE TO THE MEDIAN. BLC NUMBERS HAVE VARIED OVER THE YEARS BUT HAVE ALWAYS HAD SOME STRONG YEAR CLASSES. YEP APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 1987 SURVEY AND PMK IN THIS SURVEY.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, July 8, 1991.

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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.

McKenzie Lake

Depth map

Stocking history

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 1991

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