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Minnesota Lakes With Burbot

117 counted Minnesota lakes list Burbot in Minnesota DNR records. The largest is Lake of the Woods at 725,583 acres. The deepest of them is Mahnomen, Alstead & Arco Mine at 525 ft.

#	Lake	County	Surface Area	Max Depth
1	Lake of the Woods	Lake of the Woods	725,583 acres	210 ft
2	Rainy	St. Louis	210,200 acres	161 ft
3	Mille Lacs	Mille Lacs	128,250 acres	42 ft
4	Winnibigoshish	Cass	56,471 acres	69.8 ft
5	Lac la Croix	St. Louis	29,597 acres	168 ft
6	Namakan	St. Louis	24,066 acres	150 ft
7	Saganaga	Cook	18,767 acres	280 ft
8	Cass	Beltrami	15,958 acres	120 ft
9	Crooked	Lake	10,360 acres	165 ft
10	Sand Point	St. Louis	8,527 acres	184 ft
11	Whitefish	Crow Wing	7,714 acres	138 ft
12	Burntside	St. Louis	7,314 acres	126 ft
13	Big Sandy	Aitkin	6,125 acres	84 ft
14	Knife	Lake	4,919 acres	179 ft
15	Pike Bay	Cass	4,756 acres	95 ft
16	Snowbank	Lake	4,655 acres	150 ft
17	Gunflint	Cook	4,009 acres	200 ft
18	Sea Gull	Cook	3,958 acres	145 ft
19	Boulder	St. Louis	3,260 acres	18 ft
20	Round	Itasca	2,860 acres	24 ft
21	Cut Foot Sioux	Itasca	2,771 acres	78 ft
22	Blackduck	Beltrami	2,711 acres	28 ft
23	Loon	St. Louis	2,498 acres	76 ft
24	Kabekona	Hubbard	2,433 acres	133 ft
25	North	Cook	2,349 acres	125 ft
26	Fall	Lake	2,258 acres	32 ft
27	Pine	Cook	2,122 acres	113 ft
28	Jessie	Itasca	1,740 acres	42 ft
29	Turtle River	Beltrami	1,740 acres	63 ft
30	Little Saganaga	Cook	1,627 acres	150 ft
31	Andrusia	Beltrami	1,596 acres	60 ft
32	Thunder	Cass	1,347 acres	95 ft
33	Clearwater	Cook	1,344 acres	130 ft
34	Prairie	Itasca	1,331 acres	31 ft
35	Moose	Lake	1,301 acres	65 ft
36	Farm	Lake	1,292 acres	56 ft
37	Little Vermilion	St. Louis	1,288 acres	52 ft
38	Whitewater	St. Louis	1,212 acres	73 ft
39	Gabimichigami	Cook	1,186 acres	209 ft
40	South	Cook	1,145 acres	140 ft
41	Ottertrack	Lake	1,134 acres	116 ft
42	Serpent	Crow Wing	1,116 acres	65 ft
43	Eagles Nest #3	St. Louis	1,028 acres	49 ft
44	Moose	Cook	1,026 acres	113 ft
45	Three	Lake	904 acres	37 ft
46	Sylvan	Cass	894 acres	57 ft
47	Long Island	Cook	884 acres	85 ft
48	Rush	Crow Wing	858 acres	105 ft
49	Movil	Beltrami	855 acres	50 ft
50	Cherokee	Cook	837 acres	142 ft
51	Sawbill	Cook	834 acres	45 ft
52	Tuscarora	Cook	805 acres	130 ft
53	Bad Medicine	Becker	803 acres	84 ft
54	West Pike	Cook	788 acres	120 ft
55	Poplar	Cook	764 acres	73 ft
56	Oyster	St. Louis	763 acres	130 ft
57	Little Knife	Lake	700 acres	184 ft
58	Fraser	Lake	695 acres	105 ft
59	Long	Beltrami	664 acres	18 ft
60	Garden	Lake	653 acres	55 ft
61	Gillis	Cook	616 acres	180 ft
62	Jeanette	St. Louis	612 acres	15 ft
63	South Farm	Lake	564 acres	31 ft
64	Daniels	Cook	509 acres	90 ft
65	Sand	Lake	486 acres	11 ft
66	Caribou	Cook	462 acres	65 ft
67	Johnson	St. Louis	456 acres	18 ft
68	Red Rock	Cook	451 acres	64 ft
69	Magnetic	Cook	447 acres	90 ft
70	Amoeber	Lake	410 acres	110 ft
71	Tom	Cook	404 acres	35 ft
72	Ester	Lake	374 acres	110 ft
73	Gaskin	Cook	372 acres	82 ft
74	Buck	Beltrami	360 acres	40 ft
75	Takucmich	St. Louis	338 acres	150 ft
76	Eagles Nest #1	St. Louis	324 acres	76 ft
77	Hanson	Lake	289 acres	100 ft
78	Frost	Cook	284 acres	88 ft
79	Peter	Cook	282 acres	120 ft
80	Mahnomen, Alstead & Arco Mine	Crow Wing	272 acres	525 ft
81	Rush	Cook	261 acres	54 ft
82	Lower Balsam	Itasca	259 acres	29 ft
83	Koma	Lake	250 acres	14 ft
84	Jasper	Cook	246 acres	125 ft
85	Crooked	Cook	244 acres	66 ft
86	August	Lake	229 acres	19 ft
87	Alworth	Lake	200 acres	33 ft
88	Upper Pauness	St. Louis	192 acres	14.5 ft
89	Mitawan	Lake	191 acres	24 ft
90	O'Reilly	Itasca	189 acres	79 ft
91	Gun	St. Louis	184 acres	135 ft
92	Banadad	Cook	178 acres	45 ft
93	Lower Pauness	St. Louis	171 acres	36 ft
94	Gull	Cook	168 acres	40 ft
95	Little Loon	St. Louis	167 acres	68 ft
96	Howard	Cook	166 acres	125 ft
97	Vista	Cook	166 acres	47 ft
98	Swamp River Reservoir	Cook	165 acres	10 ft
99	Cherry	Lake	153 acres	100 ft
100	Topaz	Lake	150 acres	73 ft

Showing the 100 largest of 117 counted lakes with Burbot.

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