Nelson Lake This 2,502 acre lake is located just northeast of Smith Lake, and only a few minutes north of Hayward. It has a shoreline of 31.4 miles, a maximum depth of 35 feet, and a mean depth of 5 feet. In it, you’ll find muskies, northerns, walleyes, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and panfish. Secchi disk readings are around 3.2 feet, but those lower readings are mainly because of naturally ocurring tannins from the spruce and tamarack bogs upstream of Nelson Lake. As you can see from this aerial, Nelson Lake has a meandering shoreline, many small islands, and one larger island called Big Island. This gives the lake a more remote, up-north sort of feel than one might expect. Plus, there are some large stretches of the shoreline, mostly low-lying wetlands, that remain undevelo...
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