Check out the Wisconsin Lake Finder, Index lists the Size, Area, County, Geographic Location, Depth and you can sort by Species.
This Wisconsin LAke Finder is awesome compared to the Minnesota Lake Finder!
I dont know about the Minnesota one but I agree the Wisconsin lake finder through the dnr is nice. Printable, lots of little waterways included.
it depends on what you consider comprehensive. it might be easier to find a body of water but there certainly is not the level of detailed information that the mndnr has on theirs. even the smallest bodies of waters have been surveyed. you can tell how small perch are, how big walleye are, etc etc. the wiscdnrs just tells you whats in there and maybe stocking info.
you can find lakes on wiscdnr easier, you can figure out if you should fish it better with MN.
Why don’t you ask this question to the MN DNR?
Minnesota is far superior for information about the lake you’re targeting and it’s not even close. I miss the mndnr site. That being said, the fisheries biologist in my area of Wisconsin is helpful and will email any Lake survey he has upon request.
I find the Minnesota recreation compas site very useful, zoom in on the map and you can click on any lake and find info, if its available. Also can get WMA info and boundaries.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/compass.html?map=COMPASS_MAPFILE&zoomsize=3
I have done very little with the MN DNR website, so not much of a comment on that end of it. WI has a ton of information, but often you need to dig for it. They did some changes on the website, and now not all the information that had been readily available populates. A lot of the comprehensive information on fyke netting, shocking data, creel census,…is found by doing seperate searches for that particular body of water.
As mentioned, if you contact a regional fisheries biologist, they’ll send you a lot of information if requested.
It maybe easier to find walleye lakes and such but I want to know how big are the fish how many did they catch in the trophy class. I think the minnesota one can take somethings away from wisconsin but wisconsin can take a lot from minnesota.
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