Minocqua Lake

Crews handled 1,464 walleye during the 2024 DNR spring survey, 5.7 to 30.0 inches, and worked that up to an estimated 3,880 adults. The 3,880 is a mark-recapture estimate; the 1,464 is what crews actually put hands on. The same survey's late-spring electrofishing logged 123.3 bluegill per mile and 6.6 largemouth per mile — gear- and effort-specific catch rates, not population estimates. The DNR stocked 13,340 large walleye fingerlings the next year, averaging 6.5 inches, and 2025 is where the stocking record stops.

The July 1972 depth sheet adds the shape of the container: 55 percent of this basin sits deeper than 20 feet and 6 percent shallower than three, 31,765 acre-feet inside 15.68 miles of shoreline. It labels School House Bay, Huber Bay, Kennedy Bay and Stacks Bay, plus Fishers, Clumbs, Kline, Jossart and Cresent islands — 1972's labels, not current usage. Two still ride on launches: Stacks Bay on the DNR landing, School House Bay on the town's Schoolhouse Bay ramp. The interactive contours on this page come from community sonar recordings — an estimate, not survey linework. The 1972 sheet is still the newest agency depth survey in our record.

Surface and an ADA flag are all our four public launch records give you to choose on, and all four were matched against the DNR boat-access layer when we last read it, July 12, 2026. Chicago Avenue and Park Street are paved and flagged ADA-accessible, with nothing in the record to separate them; Stacks Bay is paved without the flag; Cedar Street is gravel. The Town of Minocqua separately prices three town-owned ramps here at $10 daily, April 1 through November 30, by QR code now rather than the old drop box.