Devils Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Bluegill, White Sucker, Redfin Pickerel, Rock Bass
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Devils Lake, 4 lanes.
The lake
Devils Lake covers 1,320 acres in Michigan, across Lenawee County. It is a lake: 92.9% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 63 feet (19.2 m). Our records hold 18 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 63 ft (19.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.9% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 50 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 15.8% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 15.9% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 13.1% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 9.7% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 8.3% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 9% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 4.5% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 1% of the water
- 60–63 ft: 0.1% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Redfin Pickerel — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Redear, Longnose Gar, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp, Tadpole Madtom, Spottail Shiner, Golden Shiner, Brook Silverside, Banded Killifish.
Stocking: 2,309,644 fish, 1980–2026
Michigan DNR records list 2,309,644 fish released into this water from 1980 to 2026.
- Walleye: 2,018,416 in 1985–2026
- Golden Shiner: 5,555 in 2011
- Yellow Perch: 700 in 2011
2 more species on the stocking list.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Devils Lake — 4 lanes, open 4am–11pm, restrooms. Hayes State Park. phone 517-467-7401
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 8–16 feet on our readings, averaging 12.1 feet, from 51 readings. Our water temperature readings average 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2023.
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.
