Perch Lake fishing: Walleye, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch

Target species: Walleye, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Perch Lake Boat Landing.

The lake

Perch Lake covers 1,038 acres in Michigan, across Iron County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 14 feet (4.3 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 14 ft (4.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 72 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 6% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 7% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 7.4% of the water
  • 6–8 ft: 7.4% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 9.3% of the water
  • 10–11 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 11–12 ft: 14.6% of the water
  • 12–13 ft: 11% of the water
  • 13–14 ft: 30.5% of the water

3 target fish, led by Walleye

  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.

Stocking: 32,368 fish, 1985–2016

Michigan DNR records list 32,368 fish released into this water from 1985 to 2016. The latest stocking on record is from 2016, more than three years ago.

  • Yellow Perch: 31,064 in 1985
  • Black Crappie: 750 in 2016
  • Walleye: 554 in 2011

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Perch Lake Boat Landing — open 6am–10pm. US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/ottawa/recreation/recarea/?recid=12317
  • Perch Lake Campground website mcgi.state.mi.us/mrbis/BASDetail.aspx?sid=A-36-045

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 4–7 feet on our readings, averaging 5.7 feet, from 164 readings. These readings span 2017–2022. The latest reading is from 2022, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

What is hard here

Only 2 public ramps are 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.