Little Jim Lake Fishing Guide, Cook County, Minnesota

• Overview

  Little Jim Lake is a Cook County water, Minnesota side. The water sits 2,011 feet up. Small at around 17 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. It is high ground by Minnesota standards. The nearest town is Grand Marais, 18 miles away. Neebing lies 42 miles off, Parkdale another 52 miles. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Little Jim Lake

  No figure exists for depth, so let the water show you. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. County-wide records name white sucker, yellow perch, northern pike, rainbow trout and walleye. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Fish Little Jim Lake where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 4°F in January up to 63°F in July. The year splits cleanly: hard water, then open water. Count on hard cover from midwinter, and open water from early May. The water is typically free of ice between early May and mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Little Jim Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Jim Lake is 0.4 miles distant. Nothing on Little Jim Lake should be assumed from this page alone.