Fresh rain topping the water up today, with a helpful ripple pushed from the SE and pressure easing off. The water to cover at Cedar Lake is the shallows early and the drop later. The night carries the best of the day. Make the first hour count and build on it. Cooler water spreads fish back across the shallows.
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Cedar Lake is a Saint Louis County water, Minnesota side. The ground around here is mixed forest. Around 63 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. The whole outline is near 1.4 miles, and most of it is walkable. The nearest place of any size is Gilbert, 8.8 miles away. Thunder Bay sits 159 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.
Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Reported across Saint Louis County: yellow perch, northern pike and white sucker. The county list is broader than any single water. Take Cedar Lake a stretch at a time.
Averages here run 65°F at the top of summer and 4°F at the bottom of winter. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Hard water holds through the cold months, breaking up near late April. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about late April until roughly late November. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. That shapes the year on Cedar Lake.
There is no clear statement anywhere on who can fish it. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Failing this one, try Coe Lake, 1.5 miles away. The position on Cedar Lake is worth confirming on the day.
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| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 2.9 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 12.9 | 13.2 | 12 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 9.1 | 9.4 | 9.5 |
| 50° | 51° | 53° | 54° | 54° | 54° | 55° | 54° | 54° | 53° | 54° | 54° | 54° | 54° | 55° | 55° | 55° | 55° | 55° | 55° | 56° | 57° | 57° | 57° |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30.07 | 30.05 | 30.02 | 30 | 29.97 | 29.96 | 29.93 | 29.92 | 29.9 | 29.89 | 29.84 | 29.82 | 29.79 | 29.74 | 29.71 | 29.68 | 29.66 | 29.65 | 29.63 | 29.62 | 29.62 | 29.59 | 29.59 | 29.57 |
| 95 | 95 | 95 | 92 | 93 | 93 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 95 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 93 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 91 |
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