Osmun Lake Fishing Guide, Oakland County, Michigan

• Overview

  Osmun Lake is listed under Oakland County, Michigan. It sits in rolling bush. Surface area runs to about 16 acres — small enough to read in one session. The nearest place of any size is Pontiac, 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of size is Sterling Heights, 16 miles away. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Osmun Lake

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Public occurrence data for Oakland County names bluegill, black crappie and largemouth bass. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Osmun Lake repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 72°F in July and bottoms out near 23°F in January. Fishing here follows the temperature more than the calendar. Ice-out usually falls in late March, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Averages place the thaw at late March and the freeze at mid December. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Anyone fishing Osmun Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. There is somewhere to leave the car, half a mile off. There is a mapped landing stage 160 yards away. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Season dates differ by species, so read the table. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Terry Lake is 0.4 miles distant. Nothing here settles the position at Osmun Lake for certain.