Black Lake fishing

Black Lake fishing is on a natural lake. No species or stocking events are on the current agency reports yet.

Illustration, not a photo of this lake
Last stocked
Not in these reports
Plants on record
0
Species recorded
0
Surface acres
10,113

Access and facts

Water type
natural lake
Boat ramp
Yes
Facilities
restrooms

A boat launch with a toilet is on the lake; there is no carry-in launch and no boat dock, per an outdoor mapping guide.

Other places to fish at Black Lake

Black River outlet (to Alverno Dam)

Boat navigation extends up the Black River outlet as far as Alverno Dam. Sturgeon and redhorse migrate up this inlet each spring, and muskies move down it to spawn after ice-out. (onxmaps.com, accessed September 25, 2026)

Burt-Mullett-Black lakes corridor

Black Lake connects to Burt Lake and Mullett Lake through this chain, spanning Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties. (blacklakeassociation.com, accessed September 25, 2026)

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About Black Lake

Black Lake is famed for walleye and sturgeon on 10,113 acres, Michigan's eighth-largest inland lake. Ice spearing for sturgeon is well known. Wild walleye slipped, so MDNR and the Black Lake Association stocked 200,000 spring fingerlings per year for three years from about 2005. Surveys in 2010-2012 showed strong survival. Zebra mussels have cleared once-tannic water in recent decades.

Nearest lakes

Kleber Pond 6 mi last stocked June 15, 2017 Tower Pond 7.1 mi last stocked September 27, 2016 Mullett Lake 13.1 mi last stocked August 23, 2025 Hemlock Lake 19.1 mi last stocked April 27, 2026 Burt Lake 19.4 mi last stocked August 22, 2025

Sources

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