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Wildwood Lake is a public lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources (public boating access). It is public water managed for fishing by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Public access confirmed via MI DNR.
A Michigan 'two-story' lake — cool oxygenated depths stocked with rainbow and brown trout over a warm-water bass, pike and panfish fishery up top. Fish the trout deep in summer, the bass and bluegill in the shallows, and both through the ice.
Wildwood Lake covers about 227 acres in the Upper Peninsula region. Anglers here mostly fish for rainbow trout, brown trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass; bluegill, yellow perch, black crappie, northern pike are also on record. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Lance Lake and Little Pigeon River.
Species from PiscaMaps water-type profiles, MI DNR trout designations and hand research.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Michigan. Some designated trout streams are closed outside the regular trout season, and a number of rivers close to fishing seasonally in spawning reaches (marked). Ice-fishing shanties must be removed by set dates that vary by zone. Spearing, dip-netting for smelt and suckers, and bowfishing for carp and gar have their own seasons and waters.
Boats: The Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, Saginaw Bay and the big inland lakes have no horsepower limit; the smaller inland lakes often have DNR-posted no-wake or hours-of-operation rules, and a meaningful number of trout and quiet lakes are electric-motor-only. Michigan requires a boater-safety certificate for operators born after 30 June 1996. Great Lakes and connecting-water fishing is heavily charter- and pier-based.
Bank & bivvy camping: Camp at Michigan state parks and recreation areas (many on the best lakes and rivers — Higgins Lake, Burt Lake, Wilderness, Tahquamenon Falls, Ludington, the Au Sable and Pere Marquette state forest campgrounds), the Huron-Manistee, Hiawatha and Ottawa National Forests (dispersed camping widely allowed), and state forest campgrounds and dispersed sites on the millions of acres of state land. Michigan also allows dispersed 'camp registration' camping on much of the state forest.
Camping: 1 site mapped nearby — Elkwood Campground.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Anyone 17+ needs a Michigan DNR fishing licence — the resident annual all-species licence is about $26, the non-resident annual about $76, and 1-day and 3-day all-species licences are sold. Michigan folded the old separate trout/salmon stamp into the base all-species licence in 2014, so one licence covers everything including trout, salmon and the Great Lakes; there is no separate stamp. Michigan residents 65 and older buy a reduced-price senior licence, and anglers under 17 fish free. Buy from the DNR at Michigan.gov/DNRLicenses. A Michigan all-species fishing licence covers this water, trout and salmon included (no separate stamp). Designated trout lakes carry their own season and gear rules.
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