McDonald Lake

Schoolcraft - Michigan


  • 11 catches

  • 33 followers

  • 9 spots

Max depth of 11 feet. Most of the lake is really shallow so fish the deeper sections of the lake with spoons, jigs, soft plastics, live bait, spinners, and topwaters.

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McDonald Lake Fishing Reports

Recently shared catches and fishing spots

  1. joshua jaeger
    - McDonald Lake

    Details: Yellow Perch with a night crawler

  2. JT Tayler
    - McDonald Lake

    This bass has natural black markings that are so strange

    Spotted Bass with a wacky worm

  3. Jacob Maki
    - McDonald Lake

    cold day out there

    pike and perch with a tip ups

    1. Tim Steinmetz 0
      Nice catch!
  4. Jacob Maki
    - McDonald Lake

    Friends nice pike.

    9 lb. 6 oz. 31 in. Northern Pike with a tip up

    1. Andrew Feller 0
      Nice catch
    2. Tim Steinmetz 0
      Awesome pike!
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  5. Matthew Wood
    - McDonald Lake

    Walleye with a Minos

    1. Jacob Maki 0
      looks better when he's not completely frozen
  6. Jacob Maki
    - McDonald Lake

    19 1/2, 19,18,17,15

    Walleyes with a tip ups

    1. Tim Steinmetz 0
      Great catch guys!
  7. JT Tayler
    - McDonald Lake

    This is my largest Big Mouth in the Northern Midwest

    6 lb. 9 oz. 21 in. Largemouth Bass with a Top Water Frog

    1. Tim Steinmetz 0
      Awesome bass!
    2. Rich Pardy 0
      Nice one!!
    3. Matthew Wood 0
      I catch him by the bull dog ?
    4. Jacob Maki 0
      Nice I love McDonald lake.
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  8. Jacob Maki
    - McDonald Lake

    Little bro caught this two years ago

    5 lb. 3 oz. 19 in. Smallmouth Bass with a Crayfish colored crankbait

  9. Jacob Maki
    - McDonald Lake

    Forgot the gaff, scared me a little

    30 in. Pike with a sucker minnow on treble hook

    1. Jacob Maki 0
      There's pretty good size pike in there
    2. Tim Steinmetz 0
      Great pike! I need to get out to Indian Lake sometime.
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  10. Matthew Wood
    - McDonald Lake

    Tasted good

    8 in. Perch with a tear drop, wax worm

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