A very small lake at just over 10 acres. The water is darkly stained. Swing Lake is sandwiched between two very pretty lakes; Abinodji Lake to the west and Gibson Lake to the east.
The Minnesota DNR did a fish survey on this lake and it came up empty, so its probably not worth wetting a line. There was a loon hanging around the portage landing to Abinodji Lake last time through here, so perhaps there are some fish in here.
The portage landing leading to Abinodji Lake is a log dock. The mud at the end of this dock is very deep, so don't casually step into the water getting out of your canoe here -- step onto the dock.
References:
Pauly, Daniel, Exploring the Boundary Waters (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 172.
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PADDLING FROM THE GIBSON LAKE PORTAGE TO THE ABINODJI LAKE PORTAGE
View of Swing Lake from the Gibson Lake portage landing. Your view here is toward the west late in the afternoon.
After putting your canoe in at the end of the Gibson Lake portage, you make short work of small Swing Lake and reach the portage landing for Abinodji Lake. Be careful to step only on the wooden dock at the Abinodji Lake portage landing. The mud around the dock is more than hip deep.
A friendly loon swimming around near the Abinodji Lake portage landing.
Just watching a loon on Swing Lake.
View toward the east from the western end of Swing Lake.
