Walloon Lake fishing: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Brook Trout

Target species: Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Brook Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 3 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Jones Landing Park, 1 lane.

The lake

Walloon Lake covers 4,608 acres in Michigan, across Charlevoix County. It is a lake: 90.8% of it is 70 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 100 feet (30.5 m). Our records hold 5 species for this water.

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Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 100 ft (30.5 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.8% of the water is 70 feet or shallower. We hold 94 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–5 ft: 13.5% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 19.1% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 15% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 6.4% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 5% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 2.9% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 2.8% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 2.8% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 2.9% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 4.3% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 3.5% of the water
  • 65–70 ft: 3.6% of the water
  • 70–75 ft: 3.7% of the water
  • 75–80 ft: 3.1% of the water
  • 80–85 ft: 1.8% of the water
  • 85–90 ft: 0.6% of the water
  • 90–94 ft: 0.2% of the water

5 target fish, led by Rainbow Trout

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

Water and conditions

Water clarity runs 8.1–20.9 feet on our readings, averaging 13.8 feet, from 42 readings. Our water temperature readings average 54°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.8. These readings span 2019–2024.

Walloon Lake, Michigan
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Stocking: 1,504,344 fish, 1979–2008

Michigan DNR records list 1,504,344 fish released into this water from 1979 to 2008. The latest stocking on record is from 2008, more than three years ago.

  • Rainbow Trout: 954,789 in 1989–2008
  • Brown Trout: 292,120 in 1989–2000
  • Lake Trout: 215,349 in 1979–1989
  • Walleye: 34,558 in 1990
  • Brook Trout: 7,528 in 1987

3 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps and 1 boat ramp.

  • Jones Landing Park — 1 lane. Bear Creek Township. phone 231-347-0592
  • Melrose Township — 1 lane. Melrose Township. phone 231-535-2310
  • Bear Cove Marina — Petoskey. 3039 Saint Louis Club Road, Petoskey 49770 · phone +1 231 347 1994 · website bearcovemarina.com

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 3 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 3 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.