Green Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, White Sucker, Cisco, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Green Lake, 2 lanes.
The lake
Green Lake covers 2,012 acres in Michigan, across Grand Traverse County. It is a lake: 94% of it is 90 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 102 feet (31.1 m). Our records hold 14 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 102 ft (31.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 94% of the water is 90 feet or shallower. We hold 42 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–10 ft: 13.4% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 13.2% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 9.2% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 9.5% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 13% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 11.6% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 9.5% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 100–101 ft: 1.9% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Pumpkinseed, Brown Trout, Lake Trout, Spottail Shiner, Banded Killifish, Golden Shiner, Brook Silverside.
Stocking: 716,096 fish, 1997–2026
Michigan DNR records list 716,096 fish released into this water from 1997 to 2026.
- Lake Trout: 499,773 in 2007–2026
- Brown Trout: 174,323 in 1979–1991
One more species on the stocking list.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Green Lake — 2 lanes, restrooms. Interlochen State Park. phone 231-276-9511
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.
