Wolverine Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Wolverine Lake, 2 lanes.
The lake
Wolverine Lake covers 288 acres in Michigan, across Oakland County. It is a lake: 90.3% of it is 21 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 57 feet (17.4 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.
5 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Northern Pike — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Yellow Perch — Feeding water: 45–75°F.
Also recorded here: Common Carp, Golden Shiner, Fathead Minnow.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 57 ft (17.4 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 90.3% of the water is 21 feet or shallower. We hold 53 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–3 ft: 28.4% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 22.6% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 13% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 9.6% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 7.1% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 5.6% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 4% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 3% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 0.9% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 0.7% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 0.1% of the water
Stocking: 1,551,310 fish, 1981–2019
Michigan DNR records list 1,551,310 fish released into this water from 1981 to 2019. The latest stocking on record is from 2019, more than three years ago.
- Northern Pike: 1,022,730 in 1981–2009
- Fathead Minnow: 443,000 in 2007–2018
- Golden Shiner: 60,675 in 2007–2018
- Walleye: 22,262 in 1988–2019
- Black Crappie: 1,060 in 2017
- Yellow Perch: 800 in 2008
- Largemouth Bass: 783 in 2010
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.
- Wolverine Lake — 2 lanes, open 4am–11pm, restrooms. Proud Lake State Recreation Area. phone 248-685-2433
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.
