Lake Ovid fishing: Muskellunge, Redear, Channel Catfish

Target species: Muskellunge, Redear, Channel Catfish
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Sleepy Hollow State Park, 3 lanes.

The lake

Lake Ovid covers 368 acres in Michigan, across Clinton County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 10 feet (3 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Stocking: 284,522 fish, 1982–2025

Michigan DNR records list 284,522 fish released into this water from 1982 to 2025.

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  • Channel Catfish: 170,797 in 1988–2025
  • Muskellunge: 6,903 in 1999–2024

2 more species on the stocking list.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 10 ft (3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 32 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–2 ft: 1.9% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 9.5% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 7.2% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 7.7% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 7.8% of the water
  • 7–8 ft: 7.6% of the water
  • 8–9 ft: 8.6% of the water
  • 9–10 ft: 49.8% of the water

3 target fish, led by Muskellunge

  • Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 76°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2019–2023.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

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  • Sleepy Hollow State Park — 3 lanes, restrooms. Sleepy Hollow State Park. phone 517-651-6217

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.

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.