Walleye fishing can be very good on the impressive water body, but anglers also catch northern pike, bass, and muskies, along with some nice yellow perch, too.
The DNR has been stocking splake in Thumb since 1976. During the past five years the state has stocked over 73,000 splake in Thumb, including 23,000 that measured between 7.8 and 7.95 inches last year,
Most of Michigan’s muskie lakes are in the northern Lower and Upper peninsulas – well, except for the best of them all: Lake St. Clair. Southern Michigan really isn’t considered a muskie haven. Barry County’s
“Largemouth bass have historically grown slower in the Stringy Lakes Chain and that continued … with a mean growth index of -0.5 (below the state average).
Like most impoundments, Lake Besser features a mixed bag of game fish including both predators and panfish, along with an abundance of rough fish.
Eighteen different species and a total of 744 fish were collected during the most recent survey of the fishery.
The lake features robust populations of walleyes, bass, pike, and panfish and also has a fair number of cisco, and a few remnant lake trout.
“Lake Cadillac remains as one of the best and most popular fishing lakes in the northwestern Lower Peninsula with a large, diverse fish population that is relatively healthy.”
Black crappie was the top game fish by number found in the DNR survey.
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