AT A GLANCE
Why go?
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.↗↗
The lake itself
Pine Island Lake is one of dozens of kettle and moraine basins that give Todd County its postcard character, but it has its own personality on the map. The Minnesota DNR lists it at 238 surface acres with about 3 miles of shoreline, a basin that stretches roughly a mile at its longest. Average depth is around 13 feet, with a deeper pocket dropping to about 26 feet — shallow enough that more than half the surface sits in the sunlit littoral zone where weeds and fish both thrive.
