Baw Beese Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bluegill

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Redear
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Water Works Park.

The lake

Baw Beese Lake covers 396 acres in Michigan, across Hillsdale County. It is a lake: 90.6% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 70 feet (21.3 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 70 ft (21.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.6% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 35 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–5 ft: 20.9% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 17.1% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 11% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 10% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 8.6% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 7.5% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 5% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 2.5% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 1.7% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 1.7% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 2% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 1.4% of the water

5 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
  • Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.

Also recorded here: Common Carp, Brook Silverside, Banded Killifish.

Stocking: 211,898 fish, 1980–1995

Michigan DNR records list 211,898 fish released into this water from 1980 to 1995. The latest stocking on record is from 1995, more than three years ago.

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  • Walleye: 39,148 in 1982–1986

2 more species on the stocking list.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Water Works Park — City of Hillsdale. phone 517-437-3579

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Michigan EGLE — Michigan EGLE: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.