Lake · Montmorency, Michigan

Clear Lake

At a glance

Area: 56 ha (138 acres)
Mean depth (estimated): ≈ 3.5 m (11 ft)

Mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016)

This lake's year

A ring of the twelve months, January at the top: the outer band is the ice cover, the inner rings the spawning months of the lake's species, and a needle marks the day this page was updated. The list beside it says the same.

No published ice dates for this lake.
1. Splake spawns: Oct–Nov (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
Needle: Oct 25, the day this page was updated

Spawning months from each species' cited source for this region, for its five best-recorded species here; ice dates from the published record (sources below). Summer layering and fall turnover are drawn only for lakes the USGS has modelled (in the U.S. Midwest).

Who lives here

Splake Salvelinus fontinalis × Salvelinus namaycushStocked · 2026 · Fish stocking: Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Fish Stocking Database)

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Stocking

Year	Species	Number
Apr 17, 2026	Splake	8,249
Apr 23, 2025	Splake	7,500
Apr 1, 2024	Splake	7,999
Apr 19, 2023	Splake	7,432
Apr 25, 2022	Splake	8,247
Mar 29, 2021	Splake	7,498
Apr 8, 2020	Splake	14,995
Apr 27, 2019	Splake	7,499
May 3, 2018	Splake	7,495
Apr 13, 2017	Splake	7,448
Apr 15, 2016	Splake	7,439

As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 11 of 11.

Getting on the water

Clear Lake State ParkBoat launch · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Clear Lake State Park Day UseBoat launch · Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.

Official regulations: Michigan Department of Natural Resources

What's biting

Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.

From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.

About this page

Sources and licences:

U.S. Geological Survey, National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlus HR); U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2025: counties and states · Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. §105)
Lake mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016, Nature Communications 7:13603), CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0
Fish stocking: Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Fish Stocking Database) · State of Michigan open data terms (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fc7739be5f5247e7bf7f2c6bc9471140, read 2026-10-19): "This dataset is a public record and, as more fully described below, there are no restrictions on the use, reproduction, or distribution of this dataset." The terms also carry a release of claims and an unlimited indemnity, accepted under the owner's 2026-10-19 rule. Credit the agency; remove the layer if the agency asks.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources · No restrictions on the use, reproduction, or distribution (State of Michigan public record)
Michigan DNR, Institute for Fisheries Research · Public record: no restrictions on use, reproduction or distribution (State of Michigan open data terms, provided as is)

Spawning months:

Splake: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 40 (Great Lakes populations: spawning mid-October to mid-November at 44-47 °F)

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.