FISHING GUIDE Lake Pepin Offers Fantastic Small Mouth Bass 63 Fishing in All Seasons
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Mpls./St. 68 miles P Bass Fishing aul FISHING GUIDE Lake Pepin offers fantastic Small Mouth Bass 63 fishing in all seasons. Fish the many rip rap For Lake Pepin Along the Mississippi River areas and points with plastics, crankbaits and spinners. Please practice catch and 35 release on these fish. The lakes true potential can only be realized with voluntary release of Bay City these fish. Pike Fishing Fish the many shoreline weed beds in all 1 seasons. During the summer target the Red mouths of the many cold water tributaries 61 WISCONSIN that enter the lake. Trophy pike often lay in Wing MINNESOT Rush River the cooler waters that these streams provide. 63 2 White Bass Fishing Fish the many points of the lake for whites. A Maiden Rock Watch for feeding gulls as an indicator for surface feeding white bass. 1 Mile Point-No-Point 4 Lake City Area Public Landings 1 Florence Township Public Landing: Frontenac Old Frontenac, MN SP 3 Concrete slab landing with limited parking. 5 Pine Creek 1 2 Hok-Si-La Park Landing: Lake City, MN Frontenac Concrete slab landing, docks, and picnic Little Pine Creek area with ample parking. 6 3 Roschen Park Landing: Wells Creek Lake City, MN Concrete slab landing, docks, fish cleaning facility and picnic area with ample parking. 61 7 Lake City also offers a full service 8 marina, fee landing and docking for Hok-Si-La Park 35 small and large boats with daily and 2 Stockholm overnight rates. Visit www.LakeCityMN.org for more 9 Bogus Point information on fishing amenities in the Lake City e Lake City area. 3 Lak 11 Deer Lake 1st Creek epin 63 P10 2nd Creek King’s Pier Pepin Walleye/Sauger Fishing 12 Chippewa River 1 Bay City Flats Look for this area to hold numbers of post- King’s Coulee spawn walleyes/saugers in the spring. Fish use this area to recover from the rigors of spawning. Maple 13 2 Head of the Lake Springs This area can hold fish throughout the entire season. Pay close attention to the bouy line 9 Lake City Reads where the river meets the lake as the fish Fish the entire area above and below Lake Nelson tend to congregate in this area. City in all seasons. One of the best areas is Landing 3 Point-No-Point the deep water drop-off located a stones The sharp drop and rock bottom make this a throw from the Roschen Park landing. 25 good area to vertical jig the entire season. 10 2nd Creek Nat'l Bald Eagle Center 4 Rush River Delta and Flats Fish the area above and below the point The cold water from the Rush River can and delta formed by 2nd Creek. Also, during Wabasha concentrate fish in this area. Work the periods of high water, cast jigs into flooded expanse of the Flat, the off-shore drop- willows on the point. 60 off and also the deeper off-shore water as 11 Deer Island walleye/sauger will sometimes suspend in Fish the area from Bogus Point to below this location. Deer Lake in the summer and fall. Pay close 61 5 Pine Creek Plats attention to the underwater sand point that Zumbro River Fish the Pine Creek Delta and adjacent extends out into the lake in this area. It drop-off all summer. generally holds fish. 6 Long Point 12 Maple Springs Fish the 10 to 15 ft breaks in this area from Fish the area above King’s Point to below early summer through winter. Maple Springs. You can fish the pier as you would a wing dam, troll the flats at Maple 7 Maiden Rock Springs and rig or jig the deep water drop. Fish the area from above the daymark to the point below. This area offers many deep water 13 The Willows breaks that can hold fish. This area has the ability to produce fish all season. Work the sand flat adjacent 8 Hok-Si-La to the willows on the Wisconsin side, the Fish the 10-12 ft breaks in this area. This mid-channel drop and the rip rap on the area is very accessible by the public landing Minnesota side. nearby. 1 http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/areas/fisheries/lakecity/pepin.html 1 Source: Source: at Alma, WI. Alma, at (LD) 3 near Red Wing, MN to LD 4 downstream downstream 4 LD to MN Wing, Red near 3 (LD) of Pool 4 which extends from Lock and Dam Dam and Lock from extends which 4 Pool of Term Resource Monitoring Program. It is part part is It Program. Monitoring Resource Term have been identified by the Lake City Long Long City Lake the by identified been have Since 1991, 89 fish species species fish 89 1991, Since feet. 21 of depth 1 a maximum depth of 60 feet and an average average an and feet 60 of depth maximum a miles wide and covers 29,295 acres. It has has It acres. 29,295 covers and wide miles Lake Pepin is 21 miles long, averages 1.7 1.7 averages long, miles 21 is Pepin Lake the Mississippi River. Mississippi the Lake Pepin—the largest lake on on lake largest Pepin—the Lake ESO NN TA I ’S M S LAKE O E CITY S R U O T H S H FISHING GUIDE For Lake Pepin Along the Mississippi River Superb Fishing All Year Round e out-wash of Wisconsin’s Chippewa River basin into the Great Mississippi River forms 20 mile-long Lake Pepin. Over 85 species of game sh can be angled year round in these boundary waters. Lake City has nearly 7 miles of shoreline along Lake Pepin oering many opportunities for shore shing as well as 2 designated trout streams, Lake City Tourism Bureau 155 P.O. Box MN 55041 Lake City, E R Gilbert and Miller Creeks. From boat or ’S O A H T S O S shore – whether you like bobber shing, S SSSS S E H N ITY N jigging, trolling, or casting, trophy-size I T M U O C lunkers are possible rewards. S LAKE 877-525-3248 • www.LakeCityMN.org.