Buckies Pond, Michigan: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Buckies Pond is one of the Luce County listings for Michigan. The ground around here is lake country bush. This is a pocket water of some 2 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. It is a small entry by Luce County standards. Newberry sits 7 miles from the bank. The big place round here is Green Bay, 175 miles distant. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Buckies Pond

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Species logged across Luce County include yellow perch, white sucker, walleye and pink salmon. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. At Buckies Pond light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 65°F in July and bottoms out near 16°F in January. A solid cap is the normal state through winter. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near late April. Averages place the thaw at late April and the freeze at early December. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Buckies Pond rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Buckys Trout Pond Boat Launch gives a made launch, half a mile off. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. The nearest alternative is Brockies Pond, 0.3 miles out. Nothing here settles the position at Buckies Pond for certain.