Indian Lake fishing: Brook Trout, Muskellunge, Walleye
Target species: Brook Trout, Muskellunge, Walleye, Brown Trout, Shorthead Redhorse, Cisco, Rock Bass
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Indian Lake State Park South Unit, 2 lanes.
The lake
Indian Lake covers 8,651 acres in Michigan, across Schoolcraft County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Brook Trout
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Shorthead Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Mottled Sculpin.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 102 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 2.2% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 3.6% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 6.6% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 10.4% of the water
- 10–11 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 11–13 ft: 8.5% of the water
- 13–14 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 14–15 ft: 49.1% of the water
Stocking: 2,554,186 fish, 1983–2026
Michigan DNR records list 2,554,186 fish released into this water from 1983 to 2026.
- Walleye: 2,442,134 in 1993–2026
- Muskellunge: 38 in 1980
One more species on the stocking list.
3 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps and 1 hand launch.
- Indian Lake State Park South Unit — 2 lanes, open 8am–10pm, restrooms. Indian Lake State Park. phone 906-341-2355 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-77-025
- Palms Book State Park — 1 lane, restrooms. Indian Lake State Park. phone 906-341-2355 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-77-028
Car-top and kayak launches — no trailer
- Indian Lake State Park West Unit — open 8am–10pm. Indian Lake State Park. phone 906-341-2355 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-77-029
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 8,651 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
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.
