Vilas County Wisconsin Fishing

8 documented fish species across 168 Vilas County lakes.

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Vilas County Fishing Lakes

Lake	Grade	Clarity	Max Depth	Species
Boulder Lake	B	5.6 ft	23 ft	6
Spider Lake	B	10.5 ft	43 ft	6
Pickerel Lake	B	6 ft	26 ft	5
Carpenter Lake	B	7.5 ft	16 ft	5
North Turtle Lake	B	8.5 ft	58 ft	6
Silver Lake	B	12.1 ft	19 ft	5
Plum Lake	B	14.2 ft	57 ft	6
Bass Lake	B	12.8 ft	15 ft	5
Pioneer Lake	B	9.5 ft	27 ft	5
Little Spider Lake	B	16 ft	23 ft	5
Oxbow Lake	B	8 ft	44 ft	6
Towanda Lake	B	10.5 ft	27 ft	5
Birch Lake	B	6.5 ft	45 ft	6
Rush Lake	B	5 ft	7 ft	6
Imogene Lake	B	10 ft	41 ft	3
Anderson Lake	B	20.5 ft	63 ft	2
Carlin Lake	B	21 ft	36 ft	3
High Lake	B	10 ft	36 ft	6
Rainbow Lake	B	6 ft	36 ft	6
Little Tamarack Flowage Lake	B	8.2 ft	16 ft	4
Big Lake	B	-	30 ft	6
Papoose Lake	B	15 ft	65 ft	6
Kentuck Lake	B	9.5 ft	40 ft	5
Little Crooked Lake	B	8.5 ft	30 ft	5
Big Arbor Vitae Lake	B	6 ft	41 ft	4
Plummer Lake	B	18 ft	85 ft	5
Armour Lake	B	10.5 ft	56 ft	6
Found Lake	B	6 ft	21 ft	5
Circle Lily Lake	B	6 ft	35 ft	6
Big Portage Lake	B	18.5 ft	40 ft	4
Annabelle Lake	B	8 ft	30 ft	5
Meta Lake	B	10.5 ft	25 ft	4
Forest Lake	B	22.2 ft	60 ft	5
Wildcat Lake	B	7 ft	38 ft	5
Sunset Lake	B	17.3 ft	30 ft	6
Black Oak Lake	B	29 ft	85 ft	6
Spring Lake	B	8.5 ft	16 ft	4
Fishtrap Lake	B	12.2 ft	34 ft	6
Lynx Lake	B	12.8 ft	20 ft	6
Beaver Lake	B	6.5 ft	20 ft	5
Snipe Lake	B	11 ft	15 ft	4
Moon Lake	B	13 ft	38 ft	6
Dead Pike Lake	B	8 ft	80 ft	6
Presque Isle Lake	B	18 ft	103 ft	6
Anvil Lake	B	12 ft	32 ft	4
Crawling Stone Lake	B	16 ft	87 ft	6
South Turtle Lake	B	8 ft	40 ft	6
Hiawatha Lake	B	4 ft	58 ft	3
Harris Lake	B	14.9 ft	57 ft	6
Alma Lake	B	12 ft	18 ft	5
Myrtle Lake	B	10.2 ft	29 ft	3
Irving Lake	B	11.3 ft	8 ft	4
Finger Lake	B	11.7 ft	30 ft	3
Red Bass Lake	B	3.4 ft	22 ft	3
Mccullough Lake	B	8 ft	27 ft	5
Escanaba Lake	B	9.5 ft	26 ft	5
Hunter Lake	B	12.6 ft	40 ft	4
Bobidosh Lake	B	14 ft	33 ft	2
Upper Gresham Lake	B	11.3 ft	32 ft	5
Moccasin Lake	B	11 ft	31 ft	5
Little Portage Lake	B	6.4 ft	11 ft	4
Stearns Lake	B	10 ft	16 ft	6
Lake Content	B	9 ft	14 ft	5
Sugarbush Lake	B	16 ft	29 ft	6
Pokegama Lake	B	-	65 ft	6
Little Trout Lake	B	-	98 ft	6
Day Lake	B	-	57 ft	2
Haskell Lake	B	-	50 ft	5
Rice Lake	C	3.5 ft	7 ft	5
Rock Lake	C	6.2 ft	18 ft	5
Lac Vieux Desert Lake	C	5.7 ft	38 ft	6
Cochran Lake	C	6 ft	12 ft	4
Mann Lake	C	6.8 ft	18 ft	2
Stella Lake	C	5 ft	9 ft	3
Watersmeet Lake	C	3.5 ft	12 ft	6
Baker Lake	C	4.5 ft	21 ft	3
Muskellunge Lake	C	4 ft	19 ft	5
Amik Lake	C	2.8 ft	8 ft	6
Otter Lake	C	5 ft	30 ft	6
Lost Lake	C	4.5 ft	20 ft	5
Scattering Rice Lake	C	4.4 ft	17 ft	6
Broken Bow Lake	C	8 ft	23 ft	3
Little Arbor Vitae Lake	C	5 ft	32 ft	4
East Bay Lake	NR	3.2 ft	19 ft	5
Manitowish Lake	NR	12.5 ft	61 ft	6
Whitefish Lake	NR	14 ft	40 ft	4
Alder Lake	NR	10.2 ft	30 ft	6
Razorback Lake	NR	15.2 ft	35 ft	6
White Sand Lake Deep	NR	18 ft	63 ft	6
Seventeen Lake	NR	2.7 ft	8 ft	2
Stone Lake	NR	10.5 ft	43 ft	6
Fawn Lake	NR	9 ft	10 ft	5
Island Lake	NR	9.9 ft	35 ft	6
North Twin Lake	NR	14 ft	60 ft	5
Deer Lake	NR	12 ft	24 ft	2
Duck Lake	NR	4 ft	20 ft	6
Boot Lake	NR	4 ft	15 ft	5
Boot Lake	NR	-	19 ft	3
Loon Lake	NR	14.5 ft	21 ft	3
Eagle Lake	NR	5 ft	34 ft	6
Little Crawling Stone Deep Lake	NR	14 ft	44 ft	6
Big Crawling Stone Deep Lake	NR	17 ft	87 ft	6
Moss Lake West Deep	NR	7 ft	29 ft	6
White Birch Lake	NR	16 ft	27 ft	5
Yellow Birch Lake	NR	4.4 ft	23 ft	6
Benson Lake	NR	10.6 ft	15 ft	7
Wild Rice Lake Deep	NR	8.5 ft	26 ft	6
Lynx Lake	NR	4.4 ft	20 ft	6
Ike Walton Lake Deep	NR	8.5 ft	61 ft	5
Little Crab Lake	NR	11 ft	26 ft	3
Statehouse Lake	NR	10.5 ft	18 ft	3
West Bay Lake	NR	2.5 ft	57 ft	6
West Bay Lake	NR	6 ft	23 ft	3
West Bay Lake	NR	8.5 ft	19 ft	5
Katinka Lake	NR	18 ft	60 ft	5
Spirit Lake	NR	12.2 ft	20 ft	1
Long Interlaken Lake Deep	NR	15 ft	65 ft	6
Roach Lake	NR	24 ft	48 ft	2
White Sand Lake	NR	20 ft	71 ft	6
Upper Sugarbush Lake Deep	NR	15 ft	29 ft	6
Pokegema Lake Deep	NR	12 ft	65 ft	6
Aldridge Lake	NR	5 ft	12 ft	4
North Crab Lake	NR	8 ft	35 ft	6
Fence Lake Deep	NR	17 ft	86 ft	7
Flambeau Lake Deep	NR	13 ft	78 ft	6
Middle Sugarbush Lake Deep	NR	15 ft	57 ft	6
Shannon Lake	NR	6.9 ft	30 ft	3
Dunn Lake	NR	6.5 ft	9 ft	3
Mamie Lake	NR	4.5 ft	15 ft	6
Dads Lake	NR	10.8 ft	15 ft	3
Rest Lake	NR	12.5 ft	53 ft	6
Frank Lake	NR	12.8 ft	38 ft	4
Starrett Lake	NR	14.5 ft	19 ft	5
Ne Bay Lake	NR	4 ft	19 ft	5
Oberlin Lake	NR	9.5 ft	25 ft	2
North Bay Lake	NR	-	19 ft	5
Nebish Lake	NR	16.3 ft	52 ft	2
Little Bass Lake	NR	8.8 ft	35 ft	2
Crawford Lake	NR	2.2 ft	11 ft	1
Seneca Lake	NR	6.3 ft	10 ft	2
Kenu Lake	NR	2.2 ft	13 ft	5
Big Hurst Lake	NR	24 ft	44 ft	3
Catfish Lake	NR	5.5 ft	30 ft	6
Stormy Lake	NR	18 ft	63 ft	5
Adams Lake	NR	100 ft	14 ft	2
Morton Lake	NR	10.5 ft	29 ft	5
Prong Lake	NR	13.5 ft	50 ft	2
Smith Lake	NR	8.5 ft	18 ft	2
Range Line Lake	NR	7.6 ft	13 ft	2
Brandy Lake	NR	13 ft	44 ft	5
Bittersweet Lake	NR	5.5 ft	31 ft	3
Elsie Lake	NR	16 ft	22 ft	2
Little St Germain Lake-South Bay-Nr St Germain	NR	-	53 ft	6
L St Germain Lake	NR	-	53 ft	6
Mosslake_deep	NR	-	29 ft	6
Sanborn Lake	NR	-	13 ft	3
Tambling Lake	NR	-	11 ft	4
Whitesandlake_deep	NR	-	63 ft	6
Pokegemalake_deep	NR	-	65 ft	6
Longinterlakenlake_deep	NR	-	65 ft	6
Flambeaulake_deep	NR	-	78 ft	6
Littletroutlake_deep	NR	-	98 ft	6
Mosslake_east_deep	NR	-	29 ft	6
Ikewaltonlake_deep	NR	-	61 ft	5
Wildricelake_deep	NR	-	26 ft	6
Littlecrawlingstine_deep Lake	NR	-	44 ft	6
Bigcrawlingstone Deep Lake	NR	-	87 ft	6
Laura Lake	NR	-	43 ft	5

Vilas County water quality

Vilas County Lake Water Quality

Water-quality grades for every graded lake in Vilas County

DNR Survey Reports

These links open on the official state DNR websites (Wisconsin DNR survey PDFs · Minnesota DNR LakeFinder).

2025
Catfish Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Cranberry Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Dead Pike Lake comprehensive survey, 2025
Comprehensive Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Duck Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Eagle Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Johnson Lake spring bass panfish survey, 2025
Panfish Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Little Saint Germain spring walleye/musky netting survey, 2025
Netting Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Lynx Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Muskellunge Lake spring bass panfish survey, 2025
Musky Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Otter Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Razorback Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Scattering Rice Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Trout Lake spring summary report, 2025
Trout Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Upper and Lower Buckatabon spring musky netting survey, 2025
Netting Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2025
Yellow Birch Lake spring summary report, 2025
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2025 (PDF)
2024
Boot Lake spring shocking survey, 2024
Spring Shocking Survey · WI DNR · 2024 (PDF)
2024
Crab Lake spring survey, 2024
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2024 (PDF)
2024
Plum Lake spring survey, 2024
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2024 (PDF)
2024
Presque Isle Chain spring survey, 2024
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2024 (PDF)
2024
Snipe Lake spring survey, 2024
Fisheries Survey · WI DNR · 2024 (PDF)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What fish are in Vilas County lakes?

Vilas County, Wisconsin has 8 documented fish species across 168 lakes, including Panfish, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Musky, Northern Pike.

What is the best-graded fishing lake in Vilas County?

Boulder Lake holds the highest water-quality grade (B) among Vilas County lakes with a documented fishery.

Vilas County Wisconsin Fishing

Game Fish

Panfish

Trout, Salmon & Coldwater

Other Species