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Pine Island Lake

Pine Island Lake sits in Round Lake Township in the lake-dotted hills of Todd County in central Minnesota — a 238-acre public water with a 26-foot maximum depth and a 13-foot average. Locals know it as a quiet, accessible neighborhood lake with surprisingly varied habitat: bulrush beds, lily pads, cattail fringe, sunken woody cover and scattered boulders line a three-mile shoreline. The Minnesota DNR manages it primarily for northern pike and black crappie, with walleye and largemouth bass as secondary species. A single public boat landing and a median ice-out near April 6 keep the open-water season running for roughly 237 days, and recent monitoring puts water clarity among the better readings in its category.