Sand Lake (St. Louis County)

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

Minnesota · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) · DOW 69001600

DNR records show 13 stocking entries at Sand Lake (St. Louis County) since 2016, most recently rainbow trout yearlings in 2025 (2,600 fish).

• Sand Lake (St. Louis County) has 13 DNR stocking records across 10 years (2016-2025): rainbow trout (10), brown trout (2), brook trout (1).
• The most-stocked species by count is rainbow trout: 26,000 fish on record.
• Maximum depth 16 ft; surface area 27 acres, 26 littoral acres, 1.1 miles of shoreline, per the DNR lake survey.
• Fish species DNR lists here: rainbow trout.
• 1 public access on the DNR list.
• Most recent DNR fish survey: September 12, 2005 (standard survey).
• St. Louis County, nearest town Rollins; DNR lake number (DOW) 69001600.

Depth map

Bathymetric contours from the Minnesota DNR lake survey mapped 12/13/1935 (orig map); depths in feet. Simplified for the web; not for navigation.

Stocking history

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

Public accesses

DNR fish survey, 2005

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.

Loaine Lake is a 27 acre lake located near Rollins, Minnesota with 96% (26 acres) littoral area and a maximum depth of 16 feet. There is a state owned gravel back-in access located on the south side of the lake off County Road 266. Loaine Lake has been managed as a put-and-take rainbow trout fishery since construction of a barrier dam isolated the lake from fish migration in 1958. Since 1966, only rainbow trout and minnow species have been sampled. Various life stages of rainbow trout have been stocked in the past. Currently, the fishery is maintained by stocking yearling rainbow trout in the spring and fall of each year. Since the MN DNR began stocking yearling rainbow trout in 1987, the average weight of trout captured in gillnets and pounds of trout per gillnet set have increased considerably. The rainbow trout stocking quota was doubled in 1996, but neither catch rates nor pounds per set in 2005 reflected the increased stocking rate. Mean length of rainbow trout was 12.6 inches in 2005. Most (85%) of the fish captured in gillnets in 2005 were a result of the yearling stockings in 2004.

Minnesota DNR survey narrative, September 12, 2005.

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