Wiscobee Lake

Wiscobee Lake sits at a C on the grading scale — not impaired, not pristine, with summer measurements that vary year to year. Clarity is the limiting factor — phosphorus is reasonable but suspended particles or algal cells keep water transparency below Wisconsin norms.

Eutrophic conditions are the baseline here: clarity drops noticeably in late summer, and dissolved oxygen near the bottom can become a concern. A maximum depth of 40 ft puts Wiscobee Lake in the middle of Wisconsin's depth distribution. At 39 acres, Wiscobee Lake sits below the Wisconsin median: a small water where shoreline activity has an outsized effect on water quality. Within the 62 graded lakes of Oconto County, Wiscobee Lake sits at rank 53, near the bottom of the county list.

An invasive species record — Chinese Mystery Snail — has been logged at Wiscobee Lake; Wisconsin DNR maintains the official infested-waters list. The fishery is bass-led, with 3 documented species across the lake's records. Public access is available — the lake is on the Wisconsin DNR public-access list. 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.