Everett Lake
Everett Lake is a very private 109-acre lake on the edge of the BWCA with a maximum depth of 15 feet. It has very soft (unmineralized) water. Aquatic plants grow to a depth of 5 ft, with concentrations in bays and shallows. The most common plants are sweetgale, water shield, floatingleaf burreed, filamentous algae, water moss, and white waterlilies. The end basins have a muck bottom, while the main basin shoreline has a boulder and rubble bottom. Three small inlets drain local wetlands, while another inlet originates in Fenske Lake and has drops that limit fish movement. The outlet to Twin Lake has rocky rapids that probably limits upstream fish movement. The lake bottom is muddy and not ideal for swimming.
Everett Lake's littoral zone (that portion of the lake that is less than 15 feet in depth, where the majority of the aquatic plants are found, is a primary area used by young fish, and provides the essential spawning habitat for most warmwater fishes) is 109 acres. The lake's numerous fish species include black crappie, bluegill, golden shiner, northern pike, smallmouth bass, walleye, white sucker and yellow perch. Walleye have been stocked periodically in Everett Lake since the early 1900s, and walleye fingerlings have been stocked every two years since 1986.
A lake depth map for Everett Lake can be viewed online courtesy of the Minnesota DNR. It's saved as an Adobe Acrobat PDF document so that you can download and view it with all it's formatting intact. All you need is the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't already have it, it's quick to download and will come in handy on a number of other websites you visit as well. If you need to download and install a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.