Bull Lake fishing: Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout

Target species: Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Arctic Grayling
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Bad Medicine Boating.

The lake

Bull Lake covers 1,203 acres in Montana, across Lincoln County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 60 feet (18.3 m). Our records hold 7 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 60 ft (18.3 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 101 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–3 ft: 8.7% of the water
  • 3–6 ft: 4.5% of the water
  • 6–9 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 9–12 ft: 5% of the water
  • 12–15 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 15–18 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 18–21 ft: 5% of the water
  • 21–24 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 24–27 ft: 5.1% of the water
  • 27–30 ft: 4.4% of the water
  • 30–33 ft: 4.7% of the water
  • 33–36 ft: 4.9% of the water
  • 36–39 ft: 6.8% of the water
  • 39–42 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 42–45 ft: 2.4% of the water
  • 45–48 ft: 2.1% of the water
  • 48–51 ft: 2.2% of the water
  • 51–54 ft: 2.7% of the water
  • 54–57 ft: 3.3% of the water
  • 57–60 ft: 11.3% of the water

5 target fish, led by Brook Trout

  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Lake Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Arctic Grayling — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Also recorded here: Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass.

Stocking: 10,829,455 fish, 1992–2024

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks records list 10,829,455 fish released into this water from 1992 to 2024.

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  • Cutthroat Trout: 2,383,846 in 1924–1971
  • Rainbow Trout: 961,443 in 1964–2000
  • Arctic Grayling: 300,000 in 1927
  • Lake Trout: 34,500 in 1940
  • Brook Trout: 18,950 in 1927–1947

3 more species on the stocking list.

2 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 boat ramps.

  • Bad Medicine Boating — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/kootenai/recreation/recarea/?recid=49913
  • Dorr Skeels Boating Site — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/kootenai/recarea/?recid=49912 · hours: Day use only: open 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 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 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: 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.