Gull Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Atlantic Salmon, Bluegill, Rock Bass, Redfin Pickerel
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Prairieville Township Park, 4 lanes.
The lake
Gull Lake covers 2,097 acres in Michigan, across Kalamazoo County. It is a lake: 93.1% of it is 90 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 110 feet (33.5 m). Our records hold 17 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. 93.1% of the water is 90 feet or shallower. We hold 41 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–10 ft: 13.7% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 11.4% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 11.1% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 14.3% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 11.2% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 3.7% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Atlantic Salmon — Feeding water: 45–60°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Redfin Pickerel — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Brown Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp, Tadpole Madtom, Golden Shiner.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 9.8–30.1 feet on our readings, averaging 18.1 feet, from 179 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.
Stocking: 3,062,538 fish, 1988–2019
Michigan DNR records list 3,062,538 fish released into this water from 1988 to 2019. The latest stocking on record is from 2019, more than three years ago.
- Rainbow Trout: 447,171 in 1986–2019
- Atlantic Salmon: 193,424 in 1986–1992
- Brown Trout: 111,053 in 1997–2006
- Lake Trout: 80,781 in 1979–2016
One more species on the stocking list.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp and 1 boat ramp.
- Prairieville Township Park — 4 lanes. Prairieville Township. phone 616-623-2664 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/MRBIS/BASDetail.aspx?basid=A-08-031
- Gull Lake Marine Center — Richland. 12485 East D Avenue, Richland 49083 · phone +1 269 629 4507 · website gulllakemarine.com
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: 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
Clarity swings from 9.8 to 30.1 feet between our readings — the water you meet is not the water someone photographed. Only 2 public ramps are 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.
