Name your five best bass lakes in Michigan

[djkimmel]

I have a project that will further the process of promoting more bass fishing opportunity and maybe bass tournament fishing in Michigan. Can you name your 5 best bass lakes in Michigan? Inland lakes that can handle a fair amount of fishing pressure not small, unknown lakes please. If you want to list the Great Lakes / parts of the Great Lakes, please list those separately from what you consider your 5 best inland lakes. Thanks!

[blakstr1]

Grand Lake
Charlevoix
Burt / Mullet
Elk / Torch Chain
Long Lake Alpena

If we are talking Great Lakes and lakes connected I would say:
Saginaw Bay
LSC
Grand Traverse Bay
Bay De Nocs

[t-bone]

Charlevoix, Grand, Intermediate, Burt/Mullet, Kent

of course St. Clair and Erie

[rustydog]

How about some green fish lakes. Wixom, Sanford, White, Muskegon and may as well throw in Secord.

[bwebber]

Burt/Mullet
Charlevoix
Black Lake
Grand Lake
Douglas Lake

Pretty tough to narrow it to five!

[32eml24]

I havent fished five large inland lakes to list but I can list one and its the portage chain in pinckney due to its extreme diversity and big fish both lm and sm!

[Waterfoul]

I aint giving away nothing!!!

Then again...  any place but Hardy Pond!!!


St. Clair
Portage (Onekama)
Muskegon
Grand Traverse Bay
Can't think of a 5th one I've fished more than once that's big enough to handle more pressure than it already gets.

[TritonTR20]

Torch/Skegmog/Elk/Bellaire
Burt/Mullet
Charlevoix
Black Lake
Gull Lake

[Dan]

Burt/Mullet
Charlevoix
Elk/Torch/Skegamog
Grand Traverse Bay
Manistee

[motocross269]

Grand lk
Long lake in presque isle
Charlevoix
Burt and Mullet
walloon

Great lake action:
Lake St Clair

[djkimmel]

Thanks to all of you. Please keep them coming. Thank you!!

[YpsiBass]

I find it odd that Belleville Lake didn't make at least one person's list.

[dartag]

Looks like every one fishes up north.   


Kent
Cedar Island
Wolverine
Orion
Union  

[Waterfoul]

I find it odd that Belleville Lake didn't make at least one person's list.

I've never even seen that lake.   

[gmetime24]

Portage lake (onekama)
Sanford Lake
Lake Lancer (sugar springs)
Lake St Clair
Wixom lake

[fishstick]

Portage Chain
Muskegon
White
Wixom
anywhere up north

[Genie]

Lakes with room for trailers
Muskegon/white/grand river
Elk/torch
Burt/mullett
Charlevoix
Houghton
Escanaba
Saginaw bay
Traverse

[djkimmel]

Is that first lake in the UP? Maybe that is the Indian name?? I'm familiar with Lake of the Hills... (or maybe it is Lake of the Hills have Eyes... something like that?)

[VinceR]

For inland lakes:
Burt and Mullett (and all accessable waters)
Charlevoix
Elk and Torch (and all accesable waters)
Houghton Lake
Muskegon
I also really like Houghton Lake

Great Lakes:
Lake St. Clair/St. Clair River
Erie/Detroit River

[djkimmel]

Houghton is another one of those 'mixed reviews' kind of lake. But it does have a pretty good bass population in it and I have a fair number of good memories from there. I've yet to figure out the big fall smallmouth out there though. I've tried twice but it's been a number of years since the last time.