Long Lake fishing: Walleye, Channel Catfish, Black Crappie

Target species: Walleye, Channel Catfish, Black Crappie
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Long Lake, 2 lanes.

The lake

Long Lake covers 480 acres in Michigan, across Iosco County. It is a lake: 95.5% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 62 feet (18.9 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 62 ft (18.9 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 95.5% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 48 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–5 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 14.4% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 18.2% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 15.1% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 11.3% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 9.2% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 7.5% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 6.4% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 0.9% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 0.2% of the water

Stocking: 590,839 fish, 1979–2026

Michigan DNR records list 590,839 fish released into this water from 1979 to 2026.

  • Walleye: 559,051 in 1987–2026
  • Channel Catfish: 9,848 in 1997–2016
  • Black Crappie: 2,000 in 2019–2020

One more species on the stocking list.

3 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Long Lake — 2 lanes, restrooms. Plainfield Township. phone 989-473-2258

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.

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Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 11–17 feet on our readings, averaging 13.7 feet, from 106 readings. These readings span 2017–2023.

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.