Tom Doyle Lake

On the LakeGrade scale Tom Doyle Lake grades a B, with clarity at 7.0 ft and 13 µg/L of phosphorus placing it above the Wisconsin median. The lake's weakest score is on Secchi depth — the water looks more turbid than its phosphorus number alone would predict.

Mesotrophic conditions dominate at Tom Doyle Lake: enough nutrients for a healthy fishery, not so much that algal blooms become a chronic problem. The lake bottoms out at 30 ft — a moderate depth that supports a warm-water fishery without the year-round cold refuge a deeper basin provides. At 108 acres, Tom Doyle Lake fits the Wisconsin median for monitored lakes, with partial shoreline records. Among the 134 graded lakes in Oneida County, Tom Doyle Lake sits at rank 39, above the county median.

Tom Doyle Lake has at least one documented invasive species (Chinese Mystery Snail), so boaters and anglers should observe clean-drain-dry steps when leaving the lake. Walleye are documented at Tom Doyle Lake, one of 6 fish species on record for the lake. A documented public access point at Tom Doyle Lake makes the lake usable for shore fishing, paddle craft, and trailered boats. 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.