Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

Hi everyone
Anyone know any good places for bass fishing around Grand Ledge or Lansing? How's the fishing at sleepy hollow state park or hawk island park in Lansing?

I have not fished Hawk Island. Lake Ovid is one of the best largemouth bass lakes in Michigan at times. It was off last year, but most years it is good. A lowland reservoir with stained to dirty water. It is a fishing lake thanks to no wake speed limit. It can be fished decent from shore or wading, or with a boat.

Lake Lansing can be real good. In the summer though it can be ridiculously crowded considering this is the 'desert' of Michigan and it is the only real local choice for the skiers, jet skiers, kids out with the parents boats, sailboats, etc. The boat ramp is expensive. There's not much shore fishing available. You pretty much need to fish it with a boat.

Several smaller lakes with some fishing available. Park Lake is probably the best one though it is mostly very shallow and weedy. One deep hole. Decent slop lake mostly near the deep hole. Decent one hole boat ramp with a little parking.

The other lakes are mostly marginal with limited access.

The Grand River is decent fishing. Can be challenging to tough. Grand Ledge is probably a little better than Lansing. There's a boat ramp in Grand Ledge. I don't know much about it having only launched there once a long time ago.

Two nice boat ramps in Lansing. Tougher fishing but can be decent at times. Lots to fish. Lots of smaller fish. Some nice ones. Limited shore fishing.

Be careful and learn the channel before running if you go with a boat.

Another a little ways out is Webber Dam pond on the Grand a few miles north of Portland. Decent ramp. Parking for 15 or 20 trailers. Lots of flooded wood with unmarked shallows. Be very careful. Better fishing is south of the bridge usually which many people run too, but I think they are nuts considering all the wood the run through and by. Most make it though, especially now that a lot of the old standing wood has collapsed. I can't afford a new lower unit so I take my time.

There are other parks and ponds. A few borrow pits like 'Lake Independence' off of I-69 in SW Lansing or the other pond just north of there on Canal Rd.

Travis where are you from? I live in Lansing and fish around here quite often when I can. Hawk Island is a good lake. I have caught quite a few fish out of it. You can rent a boat there or fish from shore the entire way around it pretty much.
-Luke