Schoenick Lake at

Schoenick Lake at earns a C — middle-of-the-pack water quality, with one or two parameters dragging the average down from a stronger grade. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

Eutrophic conditions are the baseline here: clarity drops noticeably in late summer, and dissolved oxygen near the bottom can become a concern. The lake bottoms out at 34 ft — a moderate depth that supports a warm-water fishery without the year-round cold refuge a deeper basin provides. At 42 acres, Schoenick Lake at sits below the Wisconsin median: a small water where shoreline activity has an outsized effect on water quality. Schoenick Lake at ranks 22 of 27 in Shawano County — at the lower end of the locally monitored distribution.

Eurasian watermilfoil has been documented at Schoenick Lake at, requiring shoreline management to keep dense mats from crowding native vegetation. Bass fishing is part of the appeal: the species list runs to 3, anchored by largemouth and/or smallmouth bass. Monitoring depth is thin here: the LakeGrade rubric is applied to a small number of sample years, and the grade will be revised as more data accumulates.