White Lake fishing: Muskellunge, Rainbow Trout, Walleye
Target species: Muskellunge, Rainbow Trout, Walleye, Shorthead Redhorse
Boat: 6 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Montague Roesler Park, 6 lanes.
The lake
White Lake covers 2,480 acres in Michigan, across Muskegon County. It is a lake: 92.3% of it is 50 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 70.9 feet (21.6 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth: down to 70.9 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 70.9 ft (21.6 m). 92.3% of the water is 50 feet or shallower. We hold 107 depth contours for this water, drawn from 2,092 soundings.
- 0–5 ft: 17.1% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 15.1% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 9% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 8% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 7% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 4% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 2.6% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 1.2% of the water
Stocking: 14,415,002 fish, 1985–2026
Michigan DNR records list 14,415,002 fish released into this water from 1985 to 2026.
- Walleye: 14,395,720 in 1994–2026
- Muskellunge: 19,182 in 2013–2024
- Rainbow Trout: 100 in 2014
4 target fish, led by Muskellunge
- Muskellunge — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Shorthead Redhorse — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
Also recorded here: Flathead Catfish, Common Carp.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 5–9.5 feet on our readings, averaging 7.1 feet, from 192 readings. Our water temperature readings average 73°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2017–2023.
6 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp and 5 boat ramps.
- Montague Roesler Park — 6 lanes.
- Crosswinds Marine Service — Whitehall. 302 Lake Street, Whitehall 49461 · phone +1 231 894 4549 · website crosswindsmarineservice.com
- South Shore Marine — Whitehall. 6806 South Shore Drive, Whitehall 49461 · phone +1 231 893 3935 · website southshoremarine.net
- White Lake Municipal Marina — Whitehall. 100 Lake Street, Whitehall 49461 · phone +1 231 894 9689 · website cityofwhitehall.org/play/white-lake-municipal-marina
- White Lake Yacht Club — Whitehall. 6748 South Shore Drive, Whitehall 49461 · phone +1 231 894 4516 · website wlyc.org
- Maple Beach Yacht Club 4770 Goodrich Street · phone +1 231-292-6332 · website facebook.com/pages/category/Marina/Maple-Beach-Marina-371735620062468
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 6 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 6 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- NOAA National Geodetic Survey / Office for Coastal Management — NOAA topobathymetric lidar DEMs: class A, a survey of the bottom, 2020.
- NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- USACE eHydro — USACE eHydro channel surveys: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA National Bathymetric Source (S-102 ed3.0.0) — NOAA S-102 bathymetric surfaces: contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
- NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: 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.
