North Fish Lake (Polk County)
Waterbody ID (WBIC): 2485600 — permanent page /lakes/2485600/.
North Fish Lake is in Polk County; records show 68 acres and DNR stocking records.
- Size
- 68 acres
- Lake type
- SEEPAGE
- Max depth
- 4 ft
- Fish stocking documented through 2006 (DNR stocking records)
- Satellite clarity estimate 1.86 ft (2017)
Plan your visit
- Lake directory: public landing — No
- Lake directory: public beach — No
- Lake directory: public park — Yes
Each statement is bounded to its named source; absence of a record is never evidence of no access. The DNR access database may lag reality; posted signs at the landing are authoritative.
Verify at the DNR public boat access program page.
Fishing
No fish species/abundance table is published for this lake. Missing records mean unpublished, never zero fish.
Stocking records: 2 documented events through 2006, 1,398 fish total. Species: Northern Pike (Historic). Events in 2015 or later count as recent.
No fisheries survey population estimate is published for this lake in the covered report families.
Fishing limits — 2026-2027 season: 17 normalized rows across 17 species entries. Normalized from the DNR ruleset retrieved 2026-08-04. Source text remains authoritative.
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2026-2027 retained fishing rules: 17 published rows for 17 species; effective through 2027-03-07. Check current DNR rules.
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Water and setting
- Satellite clarity estimate: 1.86 ft (2017) — a remote-sensing estimate, kept separate from field measurements
No official DNR depth map is published for this lake.
Not published in the lake directory: official mean depth.
No public aquatic invasive species occurrence record was found for this lake. The DNR inventory is non-exhaustive; absence of a record is never evidence of absence.
- Public-land proximity (GIS proxy, not access evidence): mapped public land within 1,000 ft; nearest: Spring Meadow SHA-WPRA (Wisconsin DNR); ≈0% of shoreline buffer
- Shoreline development (landcover proxy, 2025 source): ≈10.4% developed land within 300 m, ≈1.8% impervious
- Road proximity (TIGER proxy, 2025 source): nearest local road or city street ≈17 m; ≈2.2 km of road per km² within 1 km
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Data & sources
Published data families
- Fish stocking history
- Fishing regulations (normalized snapshot)
- Directory access facts (landing, beach, park)
- Satellite water clarity estimate
Original records: Wisconsin DNR lake page.
Missing values are unpublished, never zero; each fact above is bounded to its named source and date. Full sourcing detail: Data & methods.