Fishing Meeds Lake in Cook County, Minnesota

• Overview

  Set in Cook County, Meeds Lake is a Minnesota water. The setting is pine and birch. It measures some 348 acres, and wind has room to build across it. There is roughly 6.0 miles of bank, more than one visit can cover properly. Size puts it in the front rank of our Cook County list. You are 22 miles from Grand Marais. Thunder Bay is the closest city, 65 miles away. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Meeds Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Open biodiversity records for Cook County list white sucker, yellow perch, northern pike, rainbow trout and walleye. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Meeds Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 4°F to 63°F. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. On Meeds Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is a toilet block some half a mile out. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. For a change of water, Skipper Lake is 1.4 miles distant. Nothing here settles the position at Meeds Lake for certain.