Lake Michigan Fishing Spot

  • Public Fishing: Yes
  • Mean Depth: 279'
  • Max Depth: 925'
  • Elevation: 577'
  • Shoreline: 1638'
  • Last Modified By: carpmaster on 12/05/09 08:00 PM
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Lake Michigan Description

Lake Michigan, the second largest, is the only Great Lake entirely within the United States. The northern part is in the colder, less developed upper Great Lakes region. It is sparsely populated, except for the Fox River Valley, which drains into Green Bay. This bay has one of the most productive Great Lakes fisheries but receives the wastes from the world's largest concentration of pulp and paper mills. The more temperate southern basin of Lake Michigan is among the most urbanized areas in the Great Lakes system. It contains the Milwaukee and Chicago metropolitan areas. This region is home to about 8 million people or about one-fifth of the total population of the Great Lakes basin.

There are 3 species of Salmon found in Lake Michigan. They are Chinook, Coho and Pink Salmon. While the Chinook and Coho are commonly found and caught, the Pink is fairly uncommon.

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The third-largest of the Great Lakes, it is bounded, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The word "Michigan" was originally used to refer to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa Indian word mishigami, meaning "great water."[2] The lake is slightly larger than the country of Croatia.

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