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Minnesota Lakes With Channel Catfish

167 counted Minnesota lakes list Channel Catfish in Minnesota DNR records. The largest is Pepin at 12,299 acres. The deepest of them is Green at 110 ft.

#	Lake	County	Surface Area	Max Depth
1	Pepin	Goodhue	12,299 acres	60 ft
2	Big Stone	Big Stone	11,984 acres	16 ft
3	Traverse	Traverse	10,849 acres	12 ft
4	St. Louis River Estuary	St. Louis	10,255 acres	55 ft
5	St. Croix River-Stlwtr-Prescott	Washington	8,393 acres	78 ft
6	Minnewaska	Pope	8,050 acres	32 ft
7	Island Lake Reservoir	St. Louis	8,001 acres	94 ft
8	Big Sandy	Aitkin	6,125 acres	84 ft
9	Lac Qui Parle	Lac Qui Parle	5,741 acres	15 ft
10	Green	Kandiyohi	5,569 acres	110 ft
11	Whiteface Reservoir	St. Louis	4,567 acres	35 ft
12	Marsh	Big Stone	4,462 acres	5 ft
13	Big Kandiyohi	Kandiyohi	2,730 acres	18 ft
14	Albert Lea	Freeborn	2,669 acres	5.5 ft
15	Emily	Pope	2,316 acres	6 ft
16	Okamanpeedan	Martin	2,268 acres	6.5 ft
17	Elysian (Main Lake)	Waseca	2,215 acres	13 ft
18	Artichoke	Big Stone	1,971 acres	15.5 ft
19	Hanska	Brown	1,795 acres	16 ft
20	Cannon	Rice	1,593 acres	15 ft
21	Buffalo	Wright	1,552 acres	33 ft
22	Pokegama	Pine	1,521 acres	25 ft
23	Spring	Dakota	1,494 acres	17 ft
24	Byllesby	Dakota	1,368 acres	50 ft
25	Lura	Blue Earth	1,359 acres	9 ft
26	Tetonka	Le Sueur	1,358 acres	35 ft
27	Little Rock	Benton	1,311 acres	17 ft
28	Big Stone NWR East Pool	Lac Qui Parle	1,286 acres	-
29	Whitewater	St. Louis	1,212 acres	73 ft
30	Cedar Island	Stearns	986 acres	75 ft
31	Nest	Kandiyohi	969 acres	40 ft
32	Fox	Martin	951 acres	20 ft
33	Round	Jackson	930 acres	9 ft
34	Cross	Pine	925 acres	30 ft
35	Eagle	Blue Earth	898 acres	9 ft
36	Upper Sakatah	Le Sueur	892 acres	12 ft
37	Talcot	Cottonwood	873 acres	6 ft
38	Okabena	Nobles	776 acres	16 ft
39	Spitzer	Otter Tail	731 acres	33 ft
40	Zumbro	Olmsted	715 acres	43 ft
41	Loon	Jackson	708 acres	8 ft
42	Iowa	Martin	705 acres	9.4 ft
43	Big Swan	Meeker	684 acres	32 ft
44	Wells	Rice	677 acres	4 ft
45	Pigs Eye	Ramsey	674 acres	4 ft
46	Aitkin	Aitkin	659 acres	35 ft
47	Ann	Kanabec	653 acres	17 ft
48	Otter	McLeod	642 acres	9 ft
49	Bright	Martin	639 acres	7 ft
50	Roberds	Rice	632 acres	43 ft
51	Horseshoe	Stearns	629 acres	57 ft
52	Little Spirit	Jackson	624 acres	8 ft
53	Ripley (west portion)	Meeker	614 acres	18 ft
54	Orwell	Otter Tail	608 acres	25 ft
55	Pleasant	Ramsey	607 acres	58 ft
56	Cokato	Wright	553 acres	52 ft
57	Hall	Martin	548 acres	27 ft
58	Fountain	Freeborn	522 acres	14 ft
59	Marion	McLeod	520 acres	15.2 ft
60	West Graham	Nobles	519 acres	8 ft
61	Colby	St. Louis	518 acres	30 ft
62	Pelican	Pope	518 acres	34 ft
63	East Graham	Nobles	511 acres	8 ft
64	Allie	Renville	509 acres	12 ft
65	Fish	Kanabec	506 acres	8 ft
66	Foot	Kandiyohi	503 acres	24 ft
67	Long	Stearns	487 acres	35 ft
68	Wood	Yellow Medicine	485 acres	9 ft
69	U.S. Lock & Dam #1 Pool	Hennepin	471 acres	9 ft
70	Big Twin	Martin	461 acres	18 ft
71	Big	Stearns	458 acres	42 ft
72	Clear	Jackson	434 acres	9 ft
73	Rice	Crow Wing	418 acres	25 ft
74	North Drywood	Swift	404 acres	-
75	Thomson Reservoir	Carlton	390 acres	22 ft
76	Lower Sakatah	Rice	372 acres	7 ft
77	Swan	McLeod	352 acres	10 ft
78	Little Waverly	Wright	338 acres	12 ft
79	String	Cottonwood	336 acres	3.8 ft
80	Lime	Murray	326 acres	7 ft
81	St. Anthony Falls Pool	Hennepin	317 acres	9 ft
82	North Brown's	Stearns	312 acres	41 ft
83	Goose	Carver	302 acres	10 ft
84	Orono	Sherburne	300 acres	18 ft
85	Fish	Jackson	297 acres	26 ft
86	Moosehead	Carlton	279 acres	18 ft
87	Eden	Stearns	278 acres	77 ft
88	Bloody	Murray	274 acres	9 ft
89	Clear	Martin	267 acres	7 ft
90	Long	Watonwan	263 acres	13 ft
91	Sabre	Le Sueur	258 acres	13 ft
92	South Silver	Martin	252 acres	22 ft
93	Sleepy Eye	Brown	241 acres	21 ft
94	Budd	Martin	228 acres	23 ft
95	Dayton Hollow Reservoir	Otter Tail	227 acres	32 ft
96	Quamba	Kanabec	226 acres	11 ft
97	Becker	Stearns	221 acres	20 ft
98	Knaus	Stearns	216 acres	20 ft
99	Cedar Island	St. Louis	205 acres	20 ft
100	Fond du Lac Reservoir	Carlton	201 acres	59 ft

Showing the 100 largest of 167 counted lakes with Channel Catfish.

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