Peck Lake Fishing near Munising, Michigan

• Overview

  Within Alger County, Michigan, you have Peck Lake. The surface lies 833 feet up. Surface area runs to about 9 acres — small enough to read in one session. On size it sits at the modest end of our Alger County list. Some 9 miles away sits Munising, the nearest settlement. Green Bay is the closest city, 139 miles away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Peck Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Survey and observation records for Alger County include yellow perch, rainbow smelt and northern pike. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Peck Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 15°F to 65°F. The season turns properly here, and fish follow it closely. Break-up comes around mid April, and the run that follows is short and strong. The season between ice runs from about mid April to early December. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. It sets the rhythm of the year at Peck Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Nothing in the way of made access shows up nearby: no ramp, no car park, no path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Als Lake, 0.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing on Peck Lake should be assumed from this page alone.