Deeper Lakes Extended Metro or close to cities

[popolarbear]

Lakes in the 100ft+ range
I know people are going to say Elmo. as it is the deepest lake in the metro.
its also dark and silty. DNR lake finder lists it as 140ft w 16ft clarity. ive never seen surface clarity anywhere close to 16ft! infact i doubt ive seen much more than 6ft clarity on surface of this lake!

how about Big Watab(Sterns county) max depth 120ft with surface clarity of 12ft and (HINT) stocked with trout! below thermo cline is clearer water, relatively bright, and hard bottom gravel in the few spots i dove last year.

minnetonka max depth 110ft(or so) surface clarity around 7ft. clearer in some areas with springs. upper lake is green year round due to farm run off.


Lakes in the 80ft range
White Bear max depth 83ft but lake is draining out due unknown causes. surface clarity 13ft

Calhoun 82ft surface clarity 12ft. but again i have never seen clarity beter than say 6ft