Grant Lake Fishing near Little Round Lake, Wisconsin

• Overview

  Look for Grant Lake in Bayfield County, Wisconsin. The bank is 1,437 feet above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 18 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. The bank runs about 1.1 miles all the way round, so one visit can cover most of it. The nearest town is Little Round Lake, 20 miles away. For a city, Saint Paul is 129 miles off. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Grant Lake

  Our records hold no depth for this water. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Bayfield County list rainbow smelt, brown trout, yellow perch and rainbow trout. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Grant Lake the water rewards a slow, careful approach.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 66°F and January at 9°F. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Once it clears, about mid April, the fishing comes on quickly. Ice usually gives way near mid April, and forms again about late November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. On Grant Lake that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. For a change of water, Hope Lake is 0.2 miles distant. Ask locally about Grant Lake if anything is unclear.