Best splake lakes in Minnesota
19 Minnesota waters hold splake, 19 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Stocked brook × lake trout hybrid — the Shield-lake specialty that splits the difference: shallower than lakers, deeper than brookies, and a superb ice bite.
- Trout — 150 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Greenwood — 100 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Loon — 210 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Alder — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Birch — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Hungry Jack — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Long — 110 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Iron — 15 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- High — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Little Iron — 15 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Larson — 170 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Ahsub — 70 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Dry — 40 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Divide — 20 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Dyers — 20 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Crappie
- Echo — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Bean — 20 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
- Little Dry — 25 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
- Bear — 60 ft max · survey depth data · Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Bluegill
When to fish splake in Minnesota
- Spring 5–25 ft — Ice-out through spring, splake patrol shoreline rock, points and inflows like oversized brookies.
- Summer 25–60 ft — Warm water pushes splake below the thermocline — deep breaks and humps, shallower than lakers in the same lake.
- Fall 10–35 ft — Mostly sterile but still hormone-driven — fall splake stage on rock shoals and points and eat aggressively.
- Winter 10–45 ft — Why they're stocked: an active, roaming winter predator — work basin edges and mid-depth humps, and hole-hop.
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