Foreman Lakes Fishing near Baldwin, Michigan

• Overview

  Foreman Lakes is listed under Lake County, Michigan. It sits at 840 feet above sea level. It covers about 14 acres, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Baldwin is the closest place, 2.4 miles off. Beyond it, Reed City at 15 miles and Big Rapids at 21 miles. Also within reach: Tank Lake at 0.8 miles, Whalen Lake lies 1.1 miles on, Idlewild Lake at 1.2 miles and Little Leverentz Lake lies 1.2 miles on. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Foreman Lakes

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Lake County list rainbow trout, brook trout, white sucker, bluegill and brown trout. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. The near bank of Foreman Lakes is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 68°F, while January sits near 20°F. The freeze arrives properly here and holds. The lid usually goes in early April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. Ice clears near early April and comes back about mid December in a typical year. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. The season on Foreman Lakes rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. A slipway half a mile out gives trailer access. Parking is not close: half a mile from the bank, and no nearer option is mapped. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. Tank Lake, 0.8 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Check the position at Foreman Lakes before loading the car.