Little Pike Lake near Newberry: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Within Luce County, Michigan, you have Little Pike Lake. Height above sea level is 663 feet. At about 30 acres, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. About 0.9 miles of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Michigan listings. Some 20 miles away sits Newberry, the nearest settlement. The big place round here is Green Bay, 193 miles distant. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Little Pike Lake

  Depth went unrecorded, which puts the reading back on you. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Records held for Luce County cover yellow perch, white sucker and walleye. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Little Pike Lake gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 64°F at the top of summer and 16°F at the bottom of winter. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. After late April the shallows warm and the fish move up. On average, late April opens the water and early December closes it again. Early summer and early autumn carry the open-water season. That is the shape of the year on Little Pike Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. You can launch: the ramp is half a mile away. Mapping shows a campsite some half a mile from the water. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Pike Lake at 0.7 miles is the sensible second choice. None of that is settled for Little Pike Lake in what we hold.