Fishing in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

jackarooni_p

Of all the lakes in the area, I would definitely recommend fishing orchard. It is way less crowded with both people and boats than Cass lake. If you do not own a boat, you can fish the public boat launch by Kroger. There are some good pike and bass there and some really nice tranquil fishing spots. It’s normally pretty easy to fish there just watch out for the people launching their boats and don’t get in their way. If you have a boat, I’d suggest fishing around Apple island, the big island in the middle. There are some monster bass as well as pike. In the deep areas, which there are quite a few of and some get pretty deep, there are some big walleye. Avoid the side canals if you can. They are just filled with tons and tons of carp. Although it’s pretty unknown, the DNR did in fact stock the lake with Muskie back in 2017. They were fingerlings then but from what I’ve heard they are much much bigger now. Also, this pike has some huge but very allusive long nose gar. I’ve had some follow my boat that have been at least 3 feet of not longer. So if you get lucky, you may catch one of those bad boys

Fishergal60

I only started fishing in August 2018. Did a lot of reading online over that winter to learn as much as I could before I went out again in the Spring of 2019. Since I only live 5 minutes away from this “pond”, I would say I got to know it very intimately. Last year in mid April I tossed out a bobber with a worm on into a shallow spot just about where the pier starts hoping to catch a small fish. And almost instantly something grabbed onto it. I was startled indeed. I did not have too far to go to reel this fish in but as I got him to the pier I could see his large green body horizontal in the water and boy did that get my adrenaline going. As I was pulling him up out of the water he shook himself off before I could grab my leader line 😢. I was beside myself, alone to boot. To put a frame of reference on the size of this fish, I had caught a 19” bass at another place on April 9 (my first big bass) and as I looked down into the water when he was horizontal his body alone was at least 18”. I must have fished that place for almost 2 weeks straight trying to catch what I now called my “Moby Dick”. I was fishing at Founders yesterday in the snow on April 22. I was of course the only person (or fool maybe) out there. A man walked by with his dog and told me he saw a guy catch a really big bass a couple days earlier so I know Moby is still out there. BTW this is a catch and release only pond. But there was something very surreal about being out there, alone and the snow falling; it almost felt a little like Christmas, ya know that warm peaceful feeling you get during the holidays. Even though I only caught one small bass, I know there’s at least ONE big one out there. Maybe I will catch him some day or maybe if you have an inkling to come to Founders Park you may catch the bass of your dreams or the one in my dreams.