Fishing McNamara Pond in Mackinac County, Michigan

• Overview

  Set in Mackinac County, Michigan, this is McNamara Pond. The surface lies 801 feet up. The water measures roughly 8 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. Our Mackinac County list holds plenty of bigger water. Nearest place of any size is Newberry, 24 miles away. Green Bay is the closest city, 176 miles away. There is no boundary nearby to worry about.

• Where to Fish on McNamara Pond

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Across Mackinac County, recorded fish include white sucker, rainbow smelt, yellow perch and rock bass. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Read McNamara Pond before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 65°F and January near 16°F. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. Ice fishing carries the winter, and the water opens about mid April. The lid tends to go about mid April and return around early December. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. McNamara Pond fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Signs go up and come down, so check on the day. Peggley Lake, 1 mile away, makes the obvious fallback. For McNamara Pond in particular, ask before you travel.