Millecoquins Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Brook Trout

Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, White Sucker
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Millecoquins Lake, 1 lane.

The lake

Millecoquins Lake covers 1,110 acres in Michigan, across Mackinac County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 12 feet (3.7 m). Our records hold 17 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Northern Pike

  • Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.

Also recorded here: Bluegill, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed, Brown Trout, Bowfin, Brown Bullhead, Common Carp, Mottled Sculpin, Golden Shiner.

Stocking: 2,486,815 fish, 1985–2025

Michigan DNR records list 2,486,815 fish released into this water from 1985 to 2025.

  • Walleye: 2,476,333 in 1989–2024
  • Smallmouth Bass: 4,992 in 1998
  • Brook Trout: 2,575 in 2019–2025
  • Largemouth Bass: 1,390 in 1999
  • Rainbow Trout: 1,025 in 2022–2025
  • Brown Trout: 500 in 2025

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 12 ft (3.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 46 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
  • 0–2 ft: 4.2% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 9.6% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 5.3% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 5.5% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 5.2% of the water
  • 7–8 ft: 5.9% of the water
  • 8–9 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 9–10 ft: 9.1% of the water
  • 10–11 ft: 14.8% of the water
  • 11–12 ft: 34% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Millecoquins Lake — 1 lane, restrooms. Newberry Field Office (PRD). phone 906-293-5900 · website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-49-007

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.