What Fish Are in Pepin Lake?

Pepin Lake in Pepin County, Minnesota has 47 documented fish species: American eel, bigmouth buffalo, black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, bowfin (dogfish), burbot, carpsucker, channel catfish, common carp, flathead catfish, freshwater drum, gizzard shad, golden redhorse, goldeye, greater redhorse, green sunfish, highfin carpsucker, hybrid crappie, hybrid sunfish, lake sturgeon, largemouth bass, longnose gar, mooneye, northern hog sucker, northern pike, pumpkinseed, quillback, redhorse, river carpsucker, river redhorse, rock bass, sauger, shorthead redhorse, shortnose gar, shovelnose sturgeon, silver redhorse, smallmouth bass, smallmouth buffalo, spotted sucker, walleye, walleye/sauger, white bass, white crappie, white sucker, yellow bullhead, yellow perch. The lake has limited nutrient and algae sampling on record.