A windy day on the water, with a persistent wind from the SSE and pressure leaking away. The fish at Lake Anna are likely to sit near windblown banks where food collects. A grinding day likely, with the night worth the effort if any is. Save the long walk for a better forecast. The season of moving fish: stay mobile and watch for bait.
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Lake Anna sits within Stearns County in Minnesota. The land about it is lake country bush. The water covers some 68 acres, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. The bank runs about 1.7 miles all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. You are 0.7 miles from Avon. The big place round here is Minneapolis, 71 miles distant. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Fish documented in Stearns County include largemouth bass, bluegill, northern pike and walleye. These are county-wide records, so not all of them will be in this water. Lake Anna responds to conditions more than to tactics.
July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 71°F, while January sits near 10°F. Winter closes the water for a while, and the reopening is worth catching. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about early April. Average temperatures cross freezing around early April in spring and again near late November in autumn. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. The season on Lake Anna rarely departs from it.
No public source sets out the position on this bank. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Recorded parking is half a mile off, far enough to travel light. Mapping shows a jetty some half a mile off. There is a toilet block some half a mile out. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Linneman Lake at 0.8 miles is the sensible second choice. Check the position on Lake Anna before loading the car.
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| 7 | 7 | 7.1 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 10.5 | 14.6 | 13 | 12.4 | 12 | 11.4 | 11 | 15.5 | 15 | 16.8 | 15.1 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 13.5 | 10.1 |
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