Low, flat cloud sitting over the water, with steady pressure of wind from the WNW as pressure builds. Most of the action on Bourne Lake should come off the shallows early and the drop later. The strongest window runs from night into morning. Keep expectations modest and fish carefully. Cooler water spreads fish back across the shallows.
The bites are average now
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Within Montmorency County, Michigan, you have Bourne Lake. The surface lies 1,217 feet up. At 3 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Montmorency County list. Supplies mean a trip to Lewiston, 2.9 miles off. The nearest city of size is Grand Rapids, 149 miles away. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.
We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Fish documented in Montmorency County include largemouth bass, bluegill and northern pike. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Fish Bourne Lake to its features, not to its size.
The warmest month averages 67°F, the coldest about 16°F. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Averages place the thaw at mid April and the freeze at early December. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. Plan any trip to Bourne Lake around it.
Our records carry no access rule either way. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Kirkland Lake, 0.3 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Bourne Lake as something to verify.
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The bites are average now
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 5.1 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5 | 6.1 | 8 | 11.5 | 13 | 14 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 14.4 | 13 | 11.4 | 7.7 | 5 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| 48° | 47° | 45° | 45° | 44° | 44° | 43° | 44° | 44° | 48° | 52° | 55° | 57° | 58° | 59° | 59° | 58° | 57° | 56° | 53° | 50° | 49° | 48° | 46° |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29.8 | 29.81 | 29.81 | 29.82 | 29.82 | 29.84 | 29.85 | 29.87 | 29.89 | 29.91 | 29.93 | 29.94 | 29.95 | 29.93 | 29.93 | 29.94 | 29.96 | 29.98 | 29.99 | 30 | 30.01 | 30.04 | 30.05 | 30.05 |
| 84 | 87 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 90 | 90 | 87 | 79 | 74 | 67 | 59 | 55 | 53 | 54 | 54 | 57 | 63 | 71 | 76 | 81 | 84 |
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AI Fishing Assistant for Bourne Lake
