Variety awaits anglers on Oakland’s Pontiac Lake
A few decades ago local anglers considered it a waste of time to even consider fishing on Oakland County’s Pontiac Lake.
After a dam repair project in the 1980s went awry, the entire fish
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A few decades ago local anglers considered it a waste of time to even consider fishing on Oakland County’s Pontiac Lake.
After a dam repair project in the 1980s went awry, the entire fish

South Lake is one of several lakes in the Pinckney Recreation Area that provide quality fishing opportunities.
Panfish, including some trophy-sized redear sunfish, largemouth bass, and northern pike make up the lion’s share of

Oakland County’s Loon Lake is typical of southern Michigan inland lakes. It supports a strong panfish population and good numbers of northern pike, largemouth bass, and smallmouth bass. Occasionally someone will catch a walleye in

Southwest Michigan’s Diamond Lake features one of the premier warm-water fisheries and stocked walleye fisheries in the area. It provides anglers with fine bass and panfish opportunities, good walleye fishing, and outstanding pike fishing.

The Manistee River watershed is one of the largest watersheds in Michigan, draining a total of 1,780 square miles of land in 11 counties. The river meanders through seven counties on a course of about

Healthy populations of walleyes, pike, bass and panfish continue to make Gogebic County’s Thousand Island Lake a fishery worth visiting.
Part of the 15-lake Cisco Chain of Lakes, Thousand Island Lake is located approximately

A quiet lake with relatively light fishing pressure, Frenchman Lake in Chippewa County offers anglers a mixed bag of panfish, pike, bass, and walleyes.

An oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy and running beneath Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, ruptured near the town of Marshall on July 25, 2010 creating the largest on-land oil spill in

Upper Herring Lake is a 540-acre, relatively oval lake located about five miles south of Frankfort, in Benzie County. It offers good fishing for a variety of species.
“Upper Herring is a shallow, weedy
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