Overview
Pallette Lake Map
Fishing Regulations
Special Fishing regulations: This lake has special fishing regulations that differ from statewide or border water regulations for those species identified below and take precedence. Regulations listed below are currently in place. Visit the fishing regulations page for links to upcoming regulations for specific lakes.
Special Waterbody Regulations
- Motor Trolling is allowed with 1 hook, bait, or lure per angler, and 3 hooks, baits, or lures maximum per boat. The use of lead tackle that is less than 1-inch in diameter or less than 1-ounce in weight is prohibited There is a continuous open season on all or most species except for smallmouth bass
Special Species Regulations
- Sauger and hybrids: See Walleye, Sauger, and Hybrids.
- Panfish: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Walleye, Saugers, and Hybrids: Open all year: No minimum length limit and the daily bag limit is unlimited
- Bullheads: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Catfish: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Cisco and whitefish: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Lake sturgeon: Closed. There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited.
- Muskellunge and hybrids: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Northern pike: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Largemouth bass: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Smallmouth bass: Open all year: The minimum length limit is 22” and the daily bag limit is 1
- Rough fish: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Round goby: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited, one may be killed and possessed for transport to a WDNR Office
- Ruffe: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited, one may be killed and possessed for transport to a WDNR Office
- Shovelnose sturgeon: Closed. There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited.
- Trout and salmon: See Trout regulations layer.
- White perch: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited, one may be killed and possessed for transport to a WDNR Office
- Bluegill: See Panfish.
- Bowfin: See Rough Fish.
- Channel catfish: See Catfish.
- Crappies: See Panfish.
- Flathead catfish: See Catfish.
- Hybrid, Striped, Yellow, and White Bass: See Rock, Yellow and White Bass.
- Longnose gar: See Rough Fish.
- Urban waters gamefish: This waterbody is not considered an urban water, Urban Waters Gamefish regulations do not apply.
- Rock, Yellow, and White Bass: Open all year: There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited
- Walleye: See Walleye, Sauger, and Hybrids.
- Shortnose gar: See Rough Fish.
- Paddlefish: Closed. There is no minimum length and the bag limit is unlimited.
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Fish Species
Abundance ratings are based on Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) measurements conducted by the MN DNR, and represent a snapshot of a species population at a given point in time.
Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Survey cadence may vary by state and water body.Abundance ratings are based on Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) measurements conducted by the MN DNR, and represent a snapshot of a species population at a given point in time.
Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Survey cadence may vary by state and water body.Abundance ratings are based on Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) measurements conducted by the MN DNR, and represent a snapshot of a species population at a given point in time.
Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Survey cadence may vary by state and water body.
