Platte Lake fishing: Walleye, Brown Trout

Platte Lake fishing: Walleye, Brown Trout

Target species: Walleye, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Platte Lake, 1 lane.

The lake

Platte Lake covers 2,536 acres in Michigan, across Benzie County. It is a lake: 90.6% of it is 60 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 90 feet (27.4 m). Our records hold 3 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 90 ft (27.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.6% of the water is 60 feet or shallower. We hold 27 depth contour lines for this water.

• 0–5 ft: 17.3% of the water
• 5–10 ft: 18.7% of the water
• 10–15 ft: 7.5% of the water
• 15–20 ft: 5% of the water
• 20–25 ft: 4.6% of the water
• 25–30 ft: 7.4% of the water
• 30–35 ft: 7.1% of the water
• 35–40 ft: 7.4% of the water
• 40–45 ft: 5.7% of the water
• 45–50 ft: 3.4% of the water
• 50–55 ft: 2.7% of the water
• 55–60 ft: 3.8% of the water
• 60–65 ft: 3.8% of the water
• 65–70 ft: 2.6% of the water
• 70–75 ft: 1.4% of the water
• 75–80 ft: 0.7% of the water
• 80–85 ft: 0.6% of the water
• 85–90 ft: 0.4% of the water

2 target fish, led by Walleye

• Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
• Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Also recorded here: Common Carp.

Stocking: 13,266,189 fish, 1985–2013

Michigan DNR records list 13,266,189 fish released into this water from 1985 to 2013. The latest stocking on record is from 2013, more than three years ago.

• Walleye: 13,102,480 in 1985–2013
• Brown Trout: 163,709 in 1994–2002

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

• Platte Lake — 1 lane, restrooms. Orchard Beach State Park. phone 231-723-7422

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.

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 11.5–21.5 feet on our readings, averaging 15.5 feet, from 90 readings. Our water temperature readings average 68°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2019. The latest reading is from 2019, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

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.