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Big Fish Lake

Lapeer County, Michigan · MI DNR bathymetric survey
60ft Max
depth
101 acres 8 contours Public access

Depth scale

The lake

Survey readout

Measured from the Michigan DNR inland-lake contour survey (depths read from the survey's isobath field; this lake's summary-depth column is blank in the source).

Maximum depth
60 ft
Surface area
101 acres
Shoreline
2.56 mi · irregular
Surveyed contours
8 isobaths · 0–60 ft
Deepest soundings
Aquatic vegetation
13% of surface · NAIP NDVI
Public access
Boat Launch · Rec Passport
Chart data

Provenance

All layers registered to one bounding box; positions in WGS 84.

Coordinates
42.88700, -83.39094
MI DNR lake ID
L10968
Vertical exaggeration
1.64×
Basemap
USDA NAIP · public domain
Model size
2.4 MB
Sunset tonight
Sunrise tomorrow
Computed for this lake’s coordinates.

How this map was made

Real DNR depth soundings drape over USGS 3DEP elevation, with a USDA NAIP aerial basemap and OpenStreetMap shoreline. Colour shows surveyed depth; dark lines are the survey's own isobaths.

Sources: MI DNR inland lake contours, USGS 3DEP, USDA NAIP (public domain), OpenStreetMap (ODbL), MI DNR Boat Launches.

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Fishery

surveyed 2017 · DNR SFR 2018-249
1,957Fish sampled
17Species

Gamefish

Largemouth Bass76 caught · to 18″
Northern Pike6 caught · to 29″
Grass Pickerel5 caught · to 10″

Panfish

Bluegill1,130 caught · to 8″
Pumpkinseed348 caught · to 8″
Black Crappie69 caught · to 12″
Warmouth40 caught · to 8″
Green Sunfish13 caught · to 6″
Yellow Perch9 caught · to 8″
Hybrid Sunfish1 caught · to 5″

Bullhead & catfish

Yellow Bullhead153 caught · to 12″
Brown Bullhead88 caught · to 12″

Forage & nongame

Bluntnose Minnow9 caught · to 3″
Blackchin Shiner3 caught · to 2″
Lake Chubsucker3 caught · to 9″
Spotfin Shiner3 caught · to 3″
Tadpole Madtom1 caught · to 3″
Stocking: In 1993, trout stocking was discontinued and fisheries man agement focused upon warmwater fish species and Northern Pike.
Length is the largest fish netted in the survey, not an angler record. Source: Michigan DNR Status of the Fishery Resource report.