Maybe, I would like to if the conditions are right to do some bushwacking this year. Does anyone know anything about the following lakes in terms of bushwacking> Near Mudro is Louis Lake and Alruss Lake. North East of Fourtown is NoSeeUm Lake. Possibly another suggestion between Mudro & Crooked? I am aware of the dnr lakes web site but have little faith in it since it is so dated.

theres actually a portage trail to alruss. alruss is (or atleast was) a designated trout lake. i forget what type of trout they stocked it with.

Studied my mckenzie and I did not see a portage. Interesting it is a trout lake. Approximate location of portage? Thanks

its right before the 140 rod as youre heading north. really steep takeout.

Corrected Link

Damn it!!! For some reason the link that I posted keeps changing.

Soooooo...Alruss acording to the MN fish and lake finder was last stocked in 2009 with 1900 brook trout fingerlings.

Here is a cut and past of what they say.

Status of the Fishery (as of 05/24/2006)
Alruss Lake is in Ecological Lake Class 10, which consists of 76 lakes in northeast Minnesota that are small and have clear and soft (unmineralized) water. Alruss Lake is smaller than most of the lakes in this lake class.

Alruss Lake was thermally stratified on 05/24/2006 with a surface temperature of 62 F and a bottom temperature of 41 F. Adequate oxygen for trout (more than 5 ppm) was retained to a depth of 32 feet, where the temperature was 42 F. Previous investigations showed that in midsummer, 5 ppm oxygen is retained to a depth of about 25 feet, where the temperature was about 60 F. Alruss Lake has no inlets. The outlet to Sandpit Lake has beaver dams and a waterfall that prevent fish movement. Lake bottom substrates along the shoreline are 44% boulder, 26% sand, 19% ledgerock, and 11% rubble. Aquatic plants are sparse and grow to a depth of 6 feet; the most common plants are yellow waterlilies and three-way sedge.

This early summer gillnet assessment for stream trout consisted of two gillnet sets. Two fisheries lake surveys and eight gillnet assessments were previously conducted on Alruss Lake, dating back to 1965. Most of these previous investigations were done in late May or early June and consisted of 1-2 gillnet sets.

The initial fisheries lake survey in 1965 caught no fish, although minnows were observed near the shore. Rainbow trout, splake, or brook trout have been stocked annually since 1966, except for 1968 and 1976. Only brook trout have been stocked since 2000.

Seven brook trout (3.5/gillnet) were caught in 2006. One of these brook trout had been stocked as a fingerling the previous fall and had grown to a length of 6.7 inches when recaptured eight months later. Six brook trout had been stocked as fingerlings in the fall of 2004 and averaged 13.7 inches (range: 12.6 inches to 14.9 inches) when recaptured 20 months later. Five of the trout stomachs contained chironomid midge larvae or adults, while one contained a fathead minnow and one was empty.

The 2006 trout catch of 3.7 lb/gillnet was lower than the median trout catch of 8.5 lb/gillnet in all investigations on this lake, but was similar to the median trout catch of 4.2 lb/gillnet in recent investigations of 25 stream trout lakes in the Tower Fisheries Management Area.

Alruss Lake has had a low population of small white sucker since 1978. The 2006 sucker catch of 2.0/gillnet with an average length of 10.6 inches was similar to previous sucker catches.?

Hope this helps, sorry for the confusion.

Wow, that is great info, thanks a bunch.