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Minnesota Lakes With Rainbow Trout

73 counted Minnesota lakes list Rainbow Trout in Minnesota DNR records. The largest is Bad Medicine at 803 acres. The deepest of them is Mahnomen, Alstead & Arco Mine at 525 ft.

#	Lake	County	Surface Area	Max Depth
1	Bad Medicine	Becker	803 acres	84 ft
2	Grindstone	Pine	533 acres	153 ft
3	High	St. Louis	274 acres	66 ft
4	Mahnomen, Alstead & Arco Mine	Crow Wing	272 acres	525 ft
5	Trout	Cook	259 acres	77 ft
6	Big Watab	Stearns	246 acres	123 ft
7	Birch	Cook	236 acres	69 ft
8	Mayhew	Cook	221 acres	84 ft
9	Long	Clearwater	159 acres	80 ft
10	Portsmouth Mine	Crow Wing	149 acres	395 ft
11	Miner's Pit	St. Louis	141 acres	140 ft
12	Tofte	Lake	134 acres	73 ft
13	St James Pit	St. Louis	124 acres	381 ft
14	Sagamore Mine	Crow Wing	119 acres	210 ft
15	Huntington Mine	Crow Wing	106 acres	258 ft
16	Leo	Cook	102 acres	28 ft
17	Briar	St. Louis	79 acres	21 ft
18	Diamond	Cass	77 acres	31 ft
19	Kimball	Cook	77 acres	16 ft
20	Quarry	Scott	70 acres	50 ft
21	Ram	Cook	68 acres	40 ft
22	Pennington Mine	Crow Wing	62 acres	259 ft
23	Divide	Lake	61 acres	22 ft
24	Mink	Cook	57 acres	15 ft
25	Taylor	Aitkin	55 acres	84 ft
26	Blue	Aitkin	54 acres	106 ft
27	Muckwa	Cook	49 acres	25 ft
28	Tioga Mine Pit	Itasca	49 acres	225 ft
29	Kinney	St. Louis	45 acres	160 ft
30	Newman	Hubbard	45 acres	63 ft
31	Allen	Crow Wing	44 acres	46 ft
32	Island	Clearwater	44 acres	58 ft
33	Bone	Lake	43 acres	51 ft
34	Echo	Lake	42 acres	61 ft
35	Manuel Mine	Crow Wing	41 acres	160 ft
36	Deep	Clearwater	40 acres	76 ft
37	Hogback	Lake	40 acres	43 ft
38	Blacksmith	Hubbard	39 acres	45 ft
39	Scarp	Lake	39 acres	15 ft
40	Edith	Cook	35 acres	15 ft
41	Hanson	Becker	35 acres	29 ft
42	Bass	Otter Tail	34 acres	43 ft
43	Loon	Aitkin	34 acres	21 ft
44	Olson	Cook	34 acres	18 ft
45	Benjamin	Beltrami	33 acres	128 ft
46	Pickerel	St. Louis	32 acres	47 ft
47	Bean	Lake	31 acres	26 ft
48	Corona	Carlton	27 acres	30 ft
49	Sand	St. Louis	27 acres	16 ft
50	Moonshine	Itasca	26 acres	68 ft
51	Squash	Cook	24 acres	11 ft
52	Crappie	Hubbard	23 acres	73 ft
53	Cedar	Cass	21 acres	28 ft
54	Teepee	Cass	21 acres	31 ft
55	Judson Mine Pit	St. Louis	20 acres	64 ft
56	Strawberry	Crow Wing	20 acres	41 ft
57	Camp A	St. Louis	18 acres	31 ft
58	Glacier Pond 1	Lake	18 acres	27 ft
59	James	St. Louis	18 acres	33 ft
60	Margaret	Cass	18 acres	49 ft
61	Mott Pit	St. Louis	18 acres	80 ft
62	Thompson	Cook	18 acres	12 ft
63	Talus	Cook	17 acres	22 ft
64	Chant	St. Louis	16 acres	37 ft
65	Extortion	Cook	16 acres	36 ft
66	Clearwater	St. Louis	15 acres	25 ft
67	Hazel	Cass	15 acres	38 ft
68	Perch	Cass	12 acres	39 ft
69	Trip	Cook	11 acres	19 ft
70	Jouppi	Lake	6 acres	19 ft
71	Little Elbow	St. Louis	5 acres	35 ft
72	Twin (Lakes)	St. Louis	2 acres	9 ft
73	Golf Course Pond	St. Louis	1 acres	5 ft

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