by Zint Kics, LLPOA board member

Conversations with Rick Bruesewitz Minnesota DNR: Update on Lone Lake fish surveys and water quality.

In 2019 the DNR, for the first time, did a night time back pack electro fishing [Accomplished by placing 2 electrodes, an anode and a cathode, in the water and passing electricity through the water attracting and stunning the fish which can then be counted and studied.] survey for bass in Lone Lake. They plan to do this again sometime in May of 2024.

October 2023 Minnesota DNR released 148# or approximately 2,200 walleye fingerlings into Lone Lake. [Fingerlings are juvenile fish about the size of a human finger.]

Lone Lake is scheduled to receive walleye fry this May. [Fry are recently hatched fish that have developed scales and fins.]

A survey to check fish populations and water quality is tentatively scheduled for the week of June 17, 2024, depending on weather. The DNR will perform a standard survey utilizing gill nets, trap nets and will be checking our lake for water quality. The results of this survey will determine how well past stocking of fish have done and if they look good the DNR will continue to stock fry, (more per pound than fingerlings) and if not they will go back to just fingerlings in the fall.

Later this summer the DNR will be doing near shore seining (with seining nets) and back pack electro fishing for the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) program the DNR has with the Minnesota PCA. [IBI, Index of Biotic Integrity is a tool used to classify water pollution problems.]

Great information to know and share about your lake.
Thanks, Zint