Duck Lake fishing: Walleye, Redear, Yellow Perch

Target species: Walleye, Redear, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Duck Lake, 3 lanes.

The lake

Duck Lake covers 614 acres in Michigan, across Calhoun County. It is a lake: 91.2% of it is 39 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Stocking: 1,471,658 fish, 1980–2024

Michigan DNR records list 1,471,658 fish released into this water from 1980 to 2024.

Aerial view of White Lk and Duck Lk on the Lk Mich shoreline, Muskegon County.jpg
Jsayre64 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Walleye: 1,273,285 in 1981–2024
  • Yellow Perch: 1,000 in 2021

2 more species on the stocking list.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 50 ft (15.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.2% of the water is 39 feet or shallower. We hold 40 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–3 ft: 14.3% of the water
  • 3–6 ft: 12.8% of the water
  • 6–9 ft: 14.3% of the water
  • 9–12 ft: 17.1% of the water
  • 12–15 ft: 4.5% of the water
  • 15–18 ft: 3.8% of the water
  • 18–21 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 21–24 ft: 3.8% of the water
  • 24–27 ft: 4.5% of the water
  • 27–30 ft: 4.7% of the water
  • 30–33 ft: 3% of the water
  • 33–36 ft: 2.3% of the water
  • 36–39 ft: 2.5% of the water
  • 39–42 ft: 3.2% of the water
  • 42–45 ft: 2.1% of the water
  • 45–48 ft: 1.9% of the water
  • 48–50 ft: 1.8% of the water

3 target fish, led by Walleye

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

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Duck Lake — 3 lanes, restrooms. Jackson Field Office. phone 517-780-7866

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.

Duck Lake.jpg
Adam Sonnett · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.