Portage Lake

Manistee - Michigan


  • 21 catches

  • 267 followers

  • 23 spots

Maximum 60 feet deep. As soon as the ice goes off the lake in the spring fish the shallows with dead bait for the really nice pike found here. The rest of the year try focusing your efforts on the mouth of the channel, the weedline along the south shore, ...

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Portage Lake Fishing Reports

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  1. Jacob Reinecke
    - Portage Lake

    slow day on portage lake. only kept 7

    Yellow Perch

  2. Jacob Reinecke
    - Portage Lake

    Yellow Perch

  3. joel camp
    - Portage Lake

    Smallmouth Bass with a wacky worm

    1. Scott S 0
      Nice bronze back
    2. ryan bright 0
      that is a really nice small now 👍👍👍
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  4. Harry Burrick
    - Portage Lake

    Details: Walleye with a #14 huskyjerk

  5. John Matlak
    - Portage Lake

    22 in. Round Whitefish with a spikes

    1. Ben Hoxsie 0
      What depth were they in? I'm headed out there Friday.
    2. John Matlak 0
      I guess they are actually Cisco
    3. Sher Carey 0
      I didn't know white fish were in Portage Lake !
    4. Nickolas PARIS 0
      awesome perfect matter size
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  6. John Matlak
    - Portage Lake

    Details: White fish with a spikes

  7. Dan Lounds
    - Portage Lake

    Caught on Lake Michigan was

    Chinook Salmon

  8. Ryan Hop
    - Portage Lake

    Details: Rock Bass with a white jig

  9. Travis Vandewater
    - Portage Lake

    Details: Perch Search

  10. Fishidy
    - Portage Lake

    Still has plenty of ice for fishing even though there is some open water near the shoreline. A few perch were caught on minnows and wigglers in the shallows or ...more a bit deeper along the weed beds.
    Report courtesy of Michigan DNR.

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