Pine Lake fishing: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, White Sucker, Redfin Pickerel, Bluegill, Rock Bass
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Mar-Bil Marine.
The lake
Pine Lake covers 675 acres in Michigan, across Barry County. It is a lake: 90.9% of it is 22 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 34 feet (10.4 m). Our records hold 13 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.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Sucker — Feeding water: 50–70°F.
- Redfin Pickerel — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Bullhead, Brook Silverside, Banded Killifish.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 34 ft (10.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.9% of the water is 22 feet or shallower. We hold 93 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–2 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 2–4 ft: 16.6% of the water
- 4–6 ft: 22.3% of the water
- 6–8 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 8–10 ft: 7% of the water
- 10–12 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 12–14 ft: 5.8% of the water
- 14–16 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 16–18 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 18–20 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 20–22 ft: 4.5% of the water
- 22–24 ft: 3.2% of the water
- 24–26 ft: 3.1% of the water
- 26–28 ft: 1.5% of the water
- 28–30 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 30–32 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 32–34 ft: 0.1% of the water
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.
- Mar-Bil Marine — Plainwell. 12450 Sunset Point Drive, Plainwell 49080
- Pine Lake Boat & Motor — Plainwell. 981 Doster Road, Plainwell 49080 · phone +1 269 685 8690 · website cooperspinelkboat.com
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.
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.
