Silver Lake fishing: Walleye, Bluegill, Rock Bass
Target species: Walleye, Bluegill, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Silver Lake, 2 lanes.
The lake
Silver Lake covers 619 acres in Michigan, across Grand Traverse County. It is a lake: 92.1% of it is 55 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 96 feet (29.3 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 96 ft (29.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 92.1% of the water is 55 feet or shallower. We hold 55 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–5 ft: 17.1% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 15.8% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 11.2% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 10% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 7.9% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 3.7% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 2.9% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 2.3% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 2.2% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 2% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 1.5% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 1.2% of the water
- 70–75 ft: 1% of the water
- 75–80 ft: 0.9% of the water
- 80–85 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 85–90 ft: 0.5% of the water
5 target fish, led by Walleye
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Rock Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
- Pumpkinseed — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
Stocking: 6,332,290 fish, 1990–2026
Michigan DNR records list 6,332,290 fish released into this water from 1990 to 2026.
- Walleye: 6,332,290 in 1990–2026
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Silver Lake — 2 lanes, restrooms. Interlochen State Park. phone 231-276-9511
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.
