Fishing Mullett Lake

This map shows where the fish are in Mullett Lake.


Or you can buy a marked fishing map here. "known for excellent numbers of walleye and smallmouth. Trout and muskie are a bonus."

If Mullett Lake was named after the fish mullet, then why are they spelled differently?

Record lake sturgeon Michigan:

193 lbs 0 oz 87" Mullett Lake Joe Maka Jr. 1974

Michigan Sportsman magazine:

Mullet Lake is the third-largest lake in the state. Located in Cheboygan County, Mullet covers 17,360 acres. Though muskies aren't numerous here, 50-inch fish are available.

"We take a hands-off approach to muskie management in Mullet Lake," said Cwalinski. "We have naturally reproducing populations in this maze of a waterway. The peripheral wetlands are their spawning grounds."

Anglers will find shallower water at the north end of the lake and wetlands at the south end. There's not much cover anywhere else in this deep, cold lake. Mullet Lake plummets to 120 feet and offers a variety of warmwater and coldwater fish species as forage for muskies, including perch, splake, ciscoes, rainbow trout, brown trout and lake trout.

Good bets for connecting with one of the wallhangers in Mullet Lake are between Dodge and Needle points, and where the Pigeon and Indian rivers flow into the lake. Access ramps are off Bowerstock Road, on the west shore just north of Topinabee off U.S. 27, off Jewel Road north of Boy Scout Road and at the Mullet Lake Village access site off Lake Road.

Michigan DNR map of Mullett Lake available at this site.

Michigan DNR fish stocking database is here. It appears that they have only been stocking sturgeon in Mullett Lake recently. But 100,000 walleye each year in 2000 and 2001.