Stone Lake Fishing near Two Harbors, Minnesota

• Overview

  Stone Lake is set in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. Around the bank it is mixed forest. Surface area is around 196 acres, which gives you real water without needing a boat. Some 3.5 miles of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. It ranks high for size among our Saint Louis County listings. Two Harbors is the closest place, 16 miles off. Hoyt Lakes is 25 miles away, with Arnold at 26 miles. Two sets of local rules meet not far from this water.

• Where to Fish on Stone Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Survey and observation records for Saint Louis County include yellow perch, northern pike and white sucker. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Stone Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 65°F; by January the average is down near 5°F. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Ice usually gives way near late April, and forms again about late November. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. That shapes the year on Stone Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access status is simply unknown for this water. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Evelyn Lake, 1.1 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Stone Lake as something to verify.