Cannon Lake is a lake located in

Rice County, Minnesota Rice County is a County (United States), county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 67,097. Its county seat is Faribault, Minnesota, Faribaul ...

, United States. The lake has a surface area of 1,593.22 acres and a maximum depth of 15 feet. The lake is part of the Cannon River system that starts in

Shields Lake Shields Lake is a lake in Rice County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 mil ...

, goes through Le Sueur and

Rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

counties and drains into the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

. As of the last survey of the lake in August, 2009, the most predominant species of fish was the walleye. The walleyes averaged 7.3 fish per gill net with a mean weight of 2.3 pounds and a mean length of 17.7 inches.

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