Little Lake fishing: Walleye, Brook Trout, White Sucker

Target species: Walleye, Brook Trout, White Sucker, Bluegill, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Little Lake State Forest Campground, 1 lane.

The lake

Little Lake covers 460 acres in Michigan, across Marquette County. It is a lake: 92.2% of it is 39 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 50 feet (15.2 m). Our records hold 9 species for this water.

6 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
  • Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.

Also recorded here: Mottled Sculpin, Golden Shiner, Fathead Minnow.

Stocking: 1,542,790 fish, 1983–2026

Michigan DNR records list 1,542,790 fish released into this water from 1983 to 2026.

  • Walleye: 1,520,219 in 1983–2026
  • Yellow Perch: 22,172 in 1993
  • Brook Trout: 399 in 2002–2011

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 50 ft (15.2 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.2% of the water is 39 feet or shallower. We hold 45 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–3 ft: 1.2% of the water
  • 3–6 ft: 11.4% of the water
  • 6–9 ft: 22.9% of the water
  • 9–12 ft: 16.9% of the water
  • 12–15 ft: 11.5% of the water
  • 15–18 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 18–21 ft: 3.9% of the water
  • 21–24 ft: 3.3% of the water
  • 24–27 ft: 3% of the water
  • 27–30 ft: 2.9% of the water
  • 30–33 ft: 3.2% of the water
  • 33–36 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 36–39 ft: 2.8% of the water
  • 39–42 ft: 2.6% of the water
  • 42–45 ft: 2.2% of the water
  • 45–48 ft: 1.6% of the water
  • 48–50 ft: 1.6% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Little Lake State Forest Campground — 1 lane, open 8am–10pm, restrooms. Escanaba Field Office (PRD). phone 906-789-8217 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-52-052

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.