Beatons Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Lake Whitefish

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Lake Whitefish, Lake Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Beatons Lake.

The lake

Beatons Lake covers 320 acres in Michigan, across Gogebic County. It is a lake: 92.5% of it is 70 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 90 feet (27.4 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 90 ft (27.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.5% of the water is 70 feet or shallower. We hold 69 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–5 ft: 3.9% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 6.2% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 9% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 11.9% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 5.2% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 5.9% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 7% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 7.5% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 7.4% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 70–75 ft: 3% of the water
  • 75–80 ft: 1.7% of the water
  • 80–85 ft: 1.5% of the water
  • 85–90 ft: 1.2% of the water

Stocking: 5,223,168 fish, 1994–2026

Michigan DNR records list 5,223,168 fish released into this water from 1994 to 2026.

  • Walleye: 4,581,204 in 1994–2003
  • Rainbow Trout: 387,059 in 2000–2026
  • Lake Trout: 80,042 in 1979–2025

One more species on the stocking list.

Little Beatons Lake - panoramio.jpg
Ian Shackleford · CC BY 3.0

4 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Lake Whitefish — Feeding water: 40–55°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Beatons Lake — USFS. website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-27-016

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.