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Minnesota Lakes With Bluntnose Minnow

63 counted Minnesota lakes list Bluntnose Minnow in Minnesota DNR records. The largest is Rainy at 210,200 acres. The deepest of them is Saganaga at 280 ft.

#	Lake	County	Surface Area	Max Depth
1	Rainy	St. Louis	210,200 acres	161 ft
2	Mille Lacs	Mille Lacs	128,250 acres	42 ft
3	Leech	Cass	103,444 acres	150 ft
4	Winnibigoshish	Cass	56,471 acres	69.8 ft
5	Kabetogama	St. Louis	24,034 acres	80 ft
6	Saganaga	Cook	18,767 acres	280 ft
7	Big Stone	Big Stone	11,984 acres	16 ft
8	Marsh	Big Stone	4,462 acres	5 ft
9	Kabekona	Hubbard	2,433 acres	133 ft
10	Long	Hubbard	1,926 acres	135 ft
11	Diamond	Kandiyohi	1,610 acres	27 ft
12	Perent	Lake	1,598 acres	38 ft
13	Big Stone NWR East Pool	Lac Qui Parle	1,286 acres	-
14	Moose	Cook	1,026 acres	113 ft
15	Nest	Kandiyohi	969 acres	40 ft
16	Long Island	Cook	884 acres	85 ft
17	Gillis	Cook	616 acres	180 ft
18	Pleasant	Ramsey	607 acres	58 ft
19	U.S. Lock & Dam #1 Pool	Hennepin	471 acres	9 ft
20	Wasson	Itasca	438 acres	67 ft
21	Swenson	Beltrami	412 acres	76 ft
22	Long	Isanti	387 acres	15 ft
23	St. Anthony Falls Pool	Hennepin	317 acres	9 ft
24	Bad Axe	Hubbard	303 acres	39 ft
25	Ninemile	Lake	297 acres	40 ft
26	Blue	Isanti	296 acres	31 ft
27	Timber	Cook	278 acres	12 ft
28	Lower Balsam	Itasca	259 acres	29 ft
29	Mitchell	St. Louis	248 acres	38 ft
30	Spectacle	Isanti	246 acres	51.5 ft
31	August	Lake	229 acres	19 ft
32	George	Kandiyohi	228 acres	34 ft
33	Schultz	St. Louis	210 acres	48 ft
34	Dewey	St. Louis	201 acres	40 ft
35	John	Cook	191 acres	20 ft
36	O'Reilly	Itasca	189 acres	79 ft
37	Pointon	Crow Wing	185 acres	14 ft
38	Lewis	Kanabec	179 acres	48 ft
39	Snaptail	Itasca	175 acres	70 ft
40	Grave	Crow Wing	169 acres	13 ft
41	Helen	Itasca	158 acres	33 ft
42	Deep	Lake	147 acres	38 ft
43	Crooked	Itasca	134 acres	46 ft
44	Miller	Crow Wing	132 acres	48 ft
45	Star	Crow Wing	127 acres	83 ft
46	Ox Hide	Itasca	123 acres	40 ft
47	Bass	Crow Wing	121 acres	47 ft
48	Josephine	Ramsey	116 acres	44 ft
49	Peary	St. Louis	116 acres	15 ft
50	Clear	Sherburne	113 acres	30 ft
51	Kreigle	Stearns	102 acres	66 ft
52	Kohlman	Ramsey	84 acres	9 ft
53	Rush	Pine	78 acres	37 ft
54	Pike	Lake	77 acres	8 ft
55	Deep	Ramsey	72 acres	11 ft
56	Light Foot	Wright	69 acres	22 ft
57	Misquah	Cook	52 acres	60 ft
58	Little Swan	Meeker	51 acres	31 ft
59	Sheldon	Wright	50 acres	43 ft
60	Silver	Olmsted	50 acres	11 ft
61	Little Star	Crow Wing	49 acres	30 ft
62	Homestead	Lake	44 acres	7.5 ft
63	Sundown	Lake	19 acres	16 ft

Source: Minnesota DNR lake data. Verified October 30, 2026.