Mud Lake (Douglas County)
Waterbody ID (WBIC): 3000116 — permanent page /lakes/3000116/.
Mud Lake is in Douglas County; records show 135 acres and 1 AIS occurrence record.
- Size
- 135 acres
- Lake type
- DRAINAGE
- Satellite clarity estimate 3.49 ft (2017)
Plan your visit
- Lake directory: public landing — No
- Lake directory: public beach — No
- Lake directory: public park — No
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 Missing records mean unpublished, never zero fish.
No fisheries survey population estimate is published for this lake in the covered report families.
- Musky reproductive status (DNR mapped): Reproduction UNK, stocking occurs (Cat. 0)
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.
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: 3.49 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 maximum depth, official mean depth.
- AIS record: Zebra mussel — Verified, latest documented 1989-01-01
Occurrence records come from a non-exhaustive DNR inventory; a record documents presence at observation time and a missing record is never evidence of absence.
- Public-land proximity (GIS proxy, not access evidence): mapped public land within 1,000 ft; nearest: Douglas County Forest (Douglas County); ≈2.8% of shoreline buffer
- Shoreline development (landcover proxy, 2025 source): ≈14.8% developed land within 300 m, ≈5.1% impervious
- Road proximity (TIGER proxy, 2025 source): nearest secondary road (U.S., state, or county highway) ≈34 m; ≈4.2 km of road per km² within 1 km
- Priority Navigable Waterway — basis: musky area, sturgeon area
Designations are legally defined DNR records shown as their sources state them; no composite rating is implied.
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Data & sources
Published data families
- Fishing regulations (normalized snapshot)
- Directory access facts (landing, beach, park)
- Satellite water clarity estimate
- Aquatic invasive species occurrences
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.