Lake Profile

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

If you’re looking for a Master Angler fish, you might consider dropping a line into Lake Ovid.
Since 1999, some 82 Master Angler awards have been presented to anglers from fish caught on the

Iron County’s Golden Lake has a healthy smallmouth bass population. However, anglers simply targeting just bass are doing themselves a disservice as the lake also features a robust lake trout and splake fishery.
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Barry County’s Algonquin Lake qualifies as a sleeper water body for anglers. Although it’s not known for producing trophy-sized fish, it does have healthy naturally occurring bass, pike, and panfish populations and a modest stocked

With a relatively remote setting in the western Upper Peninsula and strong populations of walleye, pike, and panfish, Gogebic County’s Thousand Island lake is a fisherman’s paradise.
Supplemental stocking by the local lake association

Good fishing, sandy beaches, a primitive campground, and a relatively remote setting in the Manistee National Forest combine to make Nichols Lake worth a look this summer.
Located in northwest Newaygo County about 20

It’s well known among local anglers that Lapeer County’s Lake Nepessing is a good bass lake.
There were a total of seven bass tournaments held on the lake last year, according to the Michigan