Mooney Lake

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

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 27013400

DNR records show 1 stocking entry at Mooney Lake since 2019, most recently largemouth bass yearlings in 2019 (3,000 fish).

Mooney Lake has 1 DNR stocking record across 1 year (2019-2019): largemouth bass (1).
The most-stocked species by count is largemouth bass: 3,000 fish on record.
Maximum depth 10 ft; surface area 124 acres, 124 littoral acres, 2.9 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
1 public access on the DNR list.
Most recent DNR fish survey: June 24, 1992 (standard survey).
Hennepin County, nearest town Medina; DNR lake number (DOW) 27013400.

Stocking history

Year	Species	Size	Number	Pounds
2019	Largemouth Bass¹	yearlings	3,000	333.3

¹ fish purchased and stocked by private citizens and sporting groups.

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	UKN	- ACCESS WAS GAINED THROUGH 2350 BROCKTON LANE ON THE NE CORNER OF THE LAKE.

DNR fish survey, 1992

Species	Gear	Catch per net	Total catch	Avg lb
Black bullhead	Standard gill nets	193.00	193	0.07
Black crappie	Standard gill nets	3.00	3	0.10
Northern pike	Standard gill nets	1.00	1	16.30
Yellow perch	Standard gill nets	1.00	1	0.10
Black bullhead	Standard trap nets	21.80	109	0.11
Black crappie	Standard trap nets	18.60	93	0.29
Common carp	Standard trap nets	1.20	6	2.47
Green sunfish	Standard trap nets	0.60	3	0.10
Northern pike	Standard trap nets	0.60	3	2.20
Bluegill	Standard trap nets	0.40	2	0.40
Golden shiner	Standard trap nets	0.40	2	0.05
Yellow perch	Standard trap nets	0.20	1	0.10

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.

BLB, BLC, AND NOP DOMINATE THE FISH POPULATION. BLB WERE CAPTURED IN NUMBERS OVER 29 TIMES THE LOCAL MEDIAN AND 128 TIMES THE STATE MEDIAN FOR GILLNETS; 4.3 TIMES THE LOCAL MEDIAN AND 8.4 TIMES THE STATE MEDIAN FOR TRAPNETS. BLB WERE RATED AT 12.2 FISH PER POUND, WITH MOST FISH BETWEEN 4.5 AND 6 INCHES, AND ONLY ONE FISH OVER 9 INCHES. BLC WERE SAMPLED IN NUMBERS 3/4 TIMES THE LOCAL MEDIAN AND 1.5 TIMES THE STATE MEDIAN FOR GILLNETS; 2.9 TIMES THE LOCAL MEDIAN AND 7.3 TIMES THE STATE MEDIAN FOR TRAPNETS. RSD WAS CALCULATED AT 30.0%. DISTRIBUTION WAS BIMODAL, WITH MODES AT 5.0-5.4 INCHES AND 10.5-10.9 INCHES TOTAL LENGTH. NOP WERE CAPTURED IN NUMBERS TWICE THE LOCAL AND STATE MEDIANS FOR GILLNETS AND SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN TRAPNET LOCAL AND STATE MEDIANS. AVERAGE WEIGHT FOR NOP WAS 2.9 POUNDS. IN ADDITION, TRAPNETS AND THE GILLNET CAPTURED 6 CARP, 3 GSF, 2 BLG, 2 YEP, AND 2 GOS. THE SEINE HAULS CAPTURED YOY AND ADULT BLC AND GSF, AS WELL AS ADULT YEP, BLB, AND FHM.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, June 24, 1992.

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Mooney Lake

Stocking history

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 1992

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