Fisher Lake Fishing near Ely, Minnesota

• Overview

  You will find Fisher Lake in Lake County, Minnesota. It sits in lake country bush country. At about 113 acres, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Shoreline length is close to 3.4 miles, and each section fishes a little differently. Ely is the closest town at 32 miles. Thunder Bay sits 94 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Fisher Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Reported across Lake County: white sucker, yellow perch, northern pike and rainbow trout. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Anyone new to Fisher Lake should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 65°F, the coldest about 4°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around late April. Average temperatures cross freezing around late April in spring and again near late November in autumn. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. It sets the rhythm of the year at Fisher Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Mink Lake, 0.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the current arrangement for Fisher Lake.