Many details to share about 2024 Lone Lake fish survey. Lone Lake, all 448 acres of it here in Aitkin County, hosted the DNR for some fish counting in May-June 2024.

Lake Facts

Maximum depth 60’
5.64 shoreline miles
1st surveyed in 1949

Water temperatures

surface 65 degrees
21’ down 61 degrees
48’ down 48 degrees

Minnesota DNR fish nets on Lone (May 2024)

Focusing on the net catching over 3 days - by the numbers the top 3 fish are:

Northern Pike 119
Yellow Bullhead 85
Rock Bass 42
(Others 19 or fewer)

Fish by mean weight:

White sucker 3.34 lbs.
Bowfin 3.11 lbs.
Walleye 2.0 lbs.
(Others 1.91lb. Or less)

BIGGEST FISH…..for those fish stories by any residents:
FISH, (number caught), longest length

Black crappie. (5) 13.98”
Bluegill (10) 7.68“
Bowfin (dogfish) (1). 20.87”
Brown bullhead (1) 14.25”
Hybrid Sunfish (1) 9.53”
Largemouth Bass (19) 16.5”
Northern Pike (119) 33.27”
Pumpkin seed (9) 6.89”
Rock Bass (42) 9.29”
Walleye (7) 20.94”
White Sucker (4). 21.46”
Yellow Bullhead (85) 13.07”
Yellow Pike. (15). 10.12”
And of course two curious snapping turtles!

Please remember, the lengths above are not the mean, median, or mode,

They are a fisherman’s favorite about the one that “got away”……the BIGGEST of each type caught by the DNR. So keep on fishing! The big ones await!