Fishing at Leg Lake, Lake County, Minnesota

• Overview

  Leg Lake is a Lake County water, in Minnesota. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level. At 21 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Minnesota listings. Grand Marais is the closest place, 38 miles off. It is 86 miles to Thunder Bay, the nearest city. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Leg Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Lake County names white sucker, yellow perch, northern pike and rainbow trout. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Read Leg Lake for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 4°F in January up to 64°F in July. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around late April. Averages suggest open water from about late April through to roughly mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Expect Leg Lake to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. There is camping recorded roughly half a mile off. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Rapture Lake sits 0.2 miles off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Leg Lake in what we hold.