Lake Medora fishing: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Lake Whitefish

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Lake Whitefish, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Lake Medora, 1 lane.

The lake

Lake Medora covers 699 acres in Michigan, across Keweenaw County. It is a lake: 91.7% of it is 28 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 30 feet (9.1 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

6 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Lake Whitefish — Feeding water: 40–55°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 30 ft (9.1 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.7% of the water is 28 feet or shallower. We hold 39 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–2 ft: 0.4% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 2% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 5.1% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 10–12 ft: 6.3% of the water
  • 12–14 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 14–16 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 16–18 ft: 7.1% of the water
  • 18–20 ft: 10.7% of the water
  • 20–22 ft: 20.1% of the water
  • 22–24 ft: 7.5% of the water
  • 24–26 ft: 5.3% of the water
  • 26–28 ft: 4.6% of the water
  • 28–30 ft: 8.3% of the water

Stocking: 172,249 fish, 1979–2017

Michigan DNR records list 172,249 fish released into this water from 1979 to 2017. The latest stocking on record is from 2017, more than three years ago.

  • Rainbow Trout: 92,183 in 1979–2017
  • Walleye: 44,732 in 1982–2002
  • Brown Trout: 20,770 in 1983–1985
  • Yellow Perch: 7,576 in 1992–1998
  • Lake Trout: 500 in 2016

One more species on the stocking list.

US 41 at Lake Medora.jpg
RomanKahler · CC BY-SA 4.0

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Lake Medora — 1 lane, restrooms. Fort Wilkins State Historic Park. phone 906-289-4215 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-42-001

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.

Peaceful Lake Medora.jpg
Richie Diesterheft · CC BY 2.0

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.