- Bad Medicine Lake
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lake_name = Bad Medicine Lake
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location =Becker County, Minnesota
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frozen =Bad Medicine Lake is a spring-fed
lake located in Forest Township inBecker County, Minnesota . It got its name from the fact that early Native Americans in the area thought that a lake with neither inlet nor outlet was a place of bad omen ("bad medicine") and would not hunt or fish near the lake. The lake is approximately four miles long, a half mile wide, and reaches depths of up to 90 feet. It is known for its clear, cold waters andrainbow trout fishing. It has experienced dramatic changes in its fish habitat and fish community in the last 35 years. Regarded as a bass/panfish lake in the 1950s and 1960s, the lake is now managed primarily for rainbow trout andwalleye . The DNR turned Bad Medicine Lake into a trout lake in 1977, following an explosion of nativecrayfish that eliminated the vegetation used by bass andpanfish . Roughly 16,000 rainbow trout are stocked annually, includingKamloops andMadison strains.External links
*http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/showreport.html?downum=03008500
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