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Lily Pond

MI · Houghton

  • Stocked

The pin is approximate, near the middle of the water. The shoreline on the map comes from OpenStreetMap.

At a glance

County
Houghton County
Last stocked
June 12, 2025
Species
Lake trout
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Conditions

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Stocking history

SpeciesQtySizeWhen
Lake trout132618.1306-12-2025

Gear for the fish stocked here

Lake Trout

Rod: Medium spinning rod for casting and bottom fishing. Medium-heavy to heavy rod for deep jigging. For trolling, 8 to 10.5 foot medium to medium-heavy rods.

Line: For downrigger trolling, 250 to 400 yards of 15 lb mono, or 30 lb braid with a six-foot, 17 lb mono leader.

Baits: dead ciscoes or smelt, minnows

Lures: trolling spoons, heavy jigs and jigging spoons, flasher and fly combinations

Full Lake Trout gear guide

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Likely species (watershed)

Arctic Grayling, Blacknose Dace, Blacknose Shiner, Bluntnose Minnow, Brassy Minnow, Brown Trout, Creek Chub, Emerald Shiner, Fathead Minnow, Finescale Dace, Golden Shiner, Iowa Darter, Johnny Darter, Logperch, Longnose Dace, Mimic Shiner, Mottled Sculpin, Muskellunge, Ninespine Stickleback, Northern Redbelly Dace, Sand Shiner, Silver Lamprey, Spottail Shiner, Trout-perch, Western Blacknose Dace

Likely species come from USGS Aquatic GAP ranges for the whole watershed (HUC8). They show what may be here, not a count of this water.

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Some stocking records are adapted from LurePassion (formerly lurepassion.com) (normalized and matched to our waters), licensed CC BY 4.0. State agencies retain their own terms for the underlying records.