Lizzie Lake Fishing in Cass County, Minnesota

• Overview

  Lizzie Lake lies in Cass County, Minnesota. The land about it is lake country bush. Roughly 403 acres of surface: treat each bay as a water in its own right. Shoreline length is close to 3.8 miles, and each section fishes a little differently. It is among the larger waters listed here for Cass County. Pequot Lakes lies 14 miles from the water. Then Crosslake, 14 miles, and Breezy Point, 16 miles. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on Lizzie Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. County-wide records name largemouth bass, yellow perch, bluegill and walleye. It is the county picture; the agency list is water-specific. The near bank of Lizzie Lake is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warmest month averages 68°F, the coldest about 6°F. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around mid April. Average temperatures cross freezing around mid April in spring and again near late November in autumn. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. That is the shape of the year on Lizzie Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Jail Lake, 1.1 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. None of that is settled for Lizzie Lake in what we hold.