Duck Lake Fishing near Gwinn, Michigan

• Overview

  You will find Duck Lake in Marquette County, Michigan. The land about it is rolling bush. Small at around 5 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. Most waters listed here for Marquette County are larger. Head to Gwinn, 4.3 miles away, for anything you forgot. K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base is 5.5 miles and Harvey 17 miles. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Duck Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Survey and observation records for Marquette County include white sucker, yellow perch and rainbow smelt. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. Duck Lake fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 15°F to 65°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. The freeze runs deep into the year, with break-up near mid April. Climate figures give an open season running mid April to late November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Anyone fishing Duck Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. A boat ramp sits about half a mile from the water. The nearest mapped parking is half a mile away, so the last stretch is on foot. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Where tickets apply, they are sold in the nearest town rather than on the bank. Bass Lake at 0.6 miles is the sensible second choice. Nothing on Duck Lake should be assumed from this page alone.