Green Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, White Sucker, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Cisco
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Green Lake, 1 lane.
The lake
Green Lake covers 308 acres in Michigan, across Allegan County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 60 feet (18.3 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 60 ft (18.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 75 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 2.8% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 5.3% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 5% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 4.1% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 2.9% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 54–57 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 57–60 ft: 20.2% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.
Also recorded here: Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Warmouth, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Bullhead.
Stocking: 63,876 fish, 1979–1990
Michigan DNR records list 63,876 fish released into this water from 1979 to 1990. The latest stocking on record is from 1990, more than three years ago.
- Rainbow Trout: 47,800 in 1979–1984
- Walleye: 16,076 in 1990
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Green Lake — 1 lane, open 4am–11pm, restrooms. Yankee Springs State Recreation Area. phone 269-795-9081
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 6–16.4 feet on our readings, averaging 9.9 feet, from 32 readings. These readings span 2021–2022. 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.
