Windom Area Fisheries Office

General Information

The Windom Fisheries Management Area includes a ten county area of southwestern Minnesota. Clientele in the Windom Area include sporting clubs, lake associations, and thousands of anglers that fish in the management area annually.  The Windom Area Fisheries Office maintains influence over area fisheries resources that included 80 lakes totaling 35,304 acres, numerous warmwater stream/river miles and 2 coldwater streams managed for trout. The Windom Area Fisheries also has physical land properties that include numerous aquatic management areas (AMA), 3 state owned northern pike rearing ponds, 8-15 natural walleye rearing ponds, numerous rough fish barriers, and 1 state owned drainable walleye rearing pond.

The Windom Area Fisheries Office staff conduct walleye and northern pike fingerling production operations and coldwater stocking operations so that numerous individual lake and stream stocking objectives are met annually according to specific management objectives as determined by the Minnesota DNR.

Windom Fisheries staff conduct lake and stream survey and fish population assessments on area lakes according to management objectives.  Specific lake and stream survey assessments include analysis of watershed summarization, fish collection, vegetation collection identification and enumeration, substrate identification, water sample collection, and laboratory analysis. The results of these surveys and assessments are incorporated into state survey reports and fisheries management plans/recommendations.

Please click on the links below to access additional or detailed information.

• Fish Stocking (also see LakeFinder and Recreation Compass)
• Habitat
• Lakes (2013 Survey Schedules, Aeration, Preliminary Survey Results, Latest Contour Maps)
• Rivers
• Streams (trout stocking)
• Newsletter
• Fishing Opportunities for 2013
• Educational Opportunities
• Statewide Asian Carp Update