Bill Parker

A stocking program in the 1990s is still paying dividends today in the Irish Hills of southeast Lower Michigan.
Wamplers Lake is located on the border of Jackson and Lenawee counties. It was stocked with redear sunfish in the early 1990s and quickly gained a reputation as a fantastic lake for the sunfish. Now, more than 30 years later, those redears are still providing a viable fishery in the 780-acre water body.

Dumont Lake is one of the only inland lakes in southwest Lower Michigan with an alewife population. Because of this healthy forage base, bass and pike thrive in the 215-acre-water body. And the bluegill population is healthy and holding its own, too.

For a chance to catch fat largemouth bass and healthy, hungry panfish, Clare County’s Crooked Lake gets an affirmative nod.