West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain

West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain 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.

The lake sits in the mesotrophic zone — the band where most well-managed Wisconsin lakes fall. At 68 ft of maximum depth, West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain stratifies reliably through the summer — the hypolimnion stays cooler and clearer than the surface layer suggests. West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain covers 104 acres alongside partial shoreline records — a mid-sized water that supports a working fishery without being so large that conditions diverge between basins. Within the 39 graded lakes of Florence County, West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain sits at rank 32, near the bottom of the county list.

West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain is on the Wisconsin infested-waters list for zebra mussels — boaters should follow clean-drain-dry protocols when moving gear to or from the lake. Walleye are documented at West Lake -Spread Eagle Chain, one of 5 fish species on record for the lake. The grade is based on limited monitoring — fewer than three independent measurement years contribute, so future updates may shift the letter.