Fly Fishing Spots for the Detroit Lakes Area of Minnesota

Some Stocked Spots to Fish for Trout in the Detroit Lakes Area of Minnesota

Fishing can be a hit and miss thing if you don't know where the hot spots are. Let's face it, if you don't even know what streams or lakes are stocked you could just be drowning worms. Fly fishing is a great sport and can be great fun if you know where to go for the trout. I recently attended a meeting of the Fly Fishers Club in Fargo, North Dakota and heard from the experts in fish stocking in the Detroit Lakes area. David Friedl is a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources employee and works in the Detroit Lakes Area fisheries office as manager. He also lives and knows the Detroit Lakes area and fishes these same lakes and streams he works with. He knows the fish and where they are.

He recently was guest speaker at the Fly Fishers Club meeting and told us of the good spots that are stocked by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the ways to get to the these areas. These lakes and streams are all public access spots and can be fished by the public with a valid fishing license and trout stamps if you're fishing for trout. As in all fishing you need to make sure you have the proper license and stamps to fish what you're going for and you need to follow the rules and laws of the state you're fishing in. This is something my family has to be acutely aware of living in the state of Minnesota and having so many spots just a mile or two across the nearby border of North Dakota.

These spots are all in Becker County and can easily be a quick day trip fishing if you live nearby. The Detroit Lakes area has some great fishing in the larger lakes with plenty of public access but it's the smaller lakes and streams that have the trout and are harder to find out about. So here goes:

Elbow Lake Creek

In Becker County about 35 miles north of Detroit Lakes is a small creek that flows out of Elbow Lake and runs across Minnesota Highway 113. You can fish for trout north about 1 mile and south of the highway along the creek to Elbow Lake. The creek is a cold water creek that can sustain trout and people have been catching them in 2005.

Sucker Creek