Lake Cadillac fishing: Walleye, Pumpkinseed, Bluegill

Target species: Walleye, Pumpkinseed, Bluegill
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Kenwood Park, 2 lanes.

The lake

Lake Cadillac covers 1,173 acres in Michigan, across Wexford County. It is a lake: 90.5% of it is 20 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 25 feet (7.6 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.

Stocking: 3,143,724 fish, 1993–2026

Michigan DNR records list 3,143,724 fish released into this water from 1993 to 2026.

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Christian Collins · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Walleye: 3,143,199 in 2004–2026
  • Bluegill: 500 in 1993–1998
  • Pumpkinseed: 25 in 1993

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 25 ft (7.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.5% of the water is 20 feet or shallower. We hold 56 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 2.7% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 11.6% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 7.8% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 12.9% of the water
  • 10–12 ft: 13.8% of the water
  • 12–14 ft: 7.2% of the water
  • 14–16 ft: 8.8% of the water
  • 16–18 ft: 8.1% of the water
  • 18–20 ft: 10.5% of the water
  • 20–22 ft: 5.9% of the water
  • 22–24 ft: 2.2% of the water
  • 24–25 ft: 1.4% of the water

3 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Brown Bullhead.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps.

  • Kenwood Park — 2 lanes. phone 231-775-0181
  • Mitchell State Park - Lake Cadillac — 1 lane, open 8am–10pm. Mitchell State Park. phone 231-775-7911

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.

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Christian Collins · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is hard here

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.