Chicagon Lake fishing: Muskellunge, Rainbow Trout, Walleye

Target species: Muskellunge, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, White Sucker
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Pentoga County Park.

The lake

Chicagon Lake covers 1,089 acres in Michigan, across Iron County. It is a lake: 92.8% of it is 90 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 110 feet (33.5 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 110 ft (33.5 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.8% of the water is 90 feet or shallower. We hold 35 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–10 ft: 23.2% of the water
  • 10–20 ft: 17.2% of the water
  • 20–30 ft: 11.3% of the water
  • 30–40 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 40–50 ft: 8.6% of the water
  • 50–60 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 60–70 ft: 5.1% of the water
  • 70–80 ft: 6.1% of the water
  • 80–90 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 90–100 ft: 5% of the water
  • 100–110 ft: 2.1% of the water

6 target fish, led by Muskellunge

  • Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.

Stocking: 10,193,180 fish, 1990–2026

Michigan DNR records list 10,193,180 fish released into this water from 1990 to 2026.

  • Walleye: 9,331,373 in 1982–2026
  • Lake Trout: 634,552 in 1988–2023
  • Brown Trout: 96,100 in 1983–1987
  • Rainbow Trout: 20,000 in 1987
  • Muskellunge: 15,850 in 1997–2026
  • White Sucker: 350 in 1993

2 more species on the stocking list.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2022
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2022 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.

  • Pentoga County Park — Iron County. phone 906-265-3979 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-36-029

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.

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 17–24 feet on our readings, averaging 20.6 feet, from 110 readings. These readings span 2017–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

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.