Maceday Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Rock Bass, Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Cisco
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Maceday Lake, 2 lanes.

The lake

Maceday Lake covers 415 acres in Michigan, across Oakland County. It is a lake: 91.5% of it is 90 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 117 feet (35.7 m). Our records hold 16 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 117 ft (35.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.5% of the water is 90 feet or shallower. We hold 30 depth contour lines for this water.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2022
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2022 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain
  • 0–10 ft: 31.7% of the water
  • 10–20 ft: 18.8% of the water
  • 20–30 ft: 13% of the water
  • 30–40 ft: 14% of the water
  • 40–50 ft: 4.2% of the water
  • 50–60 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 60–70 ft: 2.1% of the water
  • 70–80 ft: 2% of the water
  • 80–90 ft: 2% of the water
  • 90–100 ft: 2.2% of the water
  • 100–110 ft: 3% of the water
  • 110–117 ft: 3.3% of the water

7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Cisco — Feeding water: 40–60°F.

Also recorded here: Green Sunfish, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Whitefish, Longnose Gar, Common Carp, Goldfish, Golden Shiner, Fathead Minnow.

Stocking: 1,230,082 fish, 1997–2026

Michigan DNR records list 1,230,082 fish released into this water from 1997 to 2026.

  • Rainbow Trout: 577,692 in 2002–2022
  • Walleye: 144,336 in 1983–1995
  • Lake Trout: 16,822 in 1994–2021
  • Brown Trout: 10,287 in 1991
  • Lake Whitefish: 50 in 2003

One more species on the stocking list.

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 9–20 feet on our readings, averaging 13.8 feet, from 150 readings. Our water temperature readings average 74°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2023.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Maceday Lake — 2 lanes, restrooms. Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area. phone 248-666-1020

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.