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Lake Michigan (Indiana Nearshore), IN
Lake spanning LaPorte/Porter/Lake counties, Indiana. Indiana's 45 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline out of Michigan City and the Burns/Portage waterway, the state's premier cold-water fishery. Spring and fall give up coho and chinook salmon, steelhead, brown and lake trout trolled offshore, while yellow perch school nearshore. Michigan City harbor holds the largest charter fleet on the Indiana lakeshore.
Overall bite score
Scored 27 min ago · recomputed every 30 minutes
Each instrument reads 0 to 100. The score is their weighted blend, tuned for lakes and reservoirs. No black box: every reading names its source.
What swims here
7 tracked species in Lake Michigan (Indiana Nearshore), with the months each fishes best.
Water facts
Great Lake nearshore (no representative live USGS water-temp gauge near Michigan City; bite score uses cold Great Lake seasonal baseline). Lake Michigan has its own 3/day 14-in black bass rule and 5/day trout-salmon limit, verify on the IN DNR Lake Michigan page. Access: Washington Park Marina and Trail Creek (Michigan City), Burns Harbor/Portage Lakefront ramps.
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