War Club Lake

War Club Lake earns a C — middle-of-the-pack water quality, with one or two parameters dragging the average down from a stronger grade.

A TSI near 47 places War Club Lake in the mesotrophic band — moderate productivity, with seasonal swings between clearer spring water and richer late-summer conditions. The lake bottoms out at 40 ft — a moderate depth that supports a warm-water fishery without the year-round cold refuge a deeper basin provides. War Club Lake is small — 80 acres alongside 2.5 miles of shoreline — which makes it sensitive to even modest changes in watershed runoff or recreational pressure. War Club Lake ranks 90 of 187 in St. Louis County — solidly in the upper half of the local distribution.

War Club Lake has no invasive species recorded in Minnesota state databases as of 2023, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. The fishery is bass-led, with 8 documented species across the lake's records. No formal public access is documented at War Club Lake — most use is by shoreline residents and their guests. 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.