How deep is Five Lakes?

Five Lakes is more than 60 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 60 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.

Where is the deepest part of Five Lakes?

The deepest charted water on Five Lakes lies inside the 60 ft contour, toward the western side of the lake. That contour encloses 1.4 acres, 2% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a small water, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.

How much of Five Lakes is shallower than 10 feet?

About half. The 10 ft contour encloses 35 acres of the roughly 73 acres inside the outer 5 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 10 feet. The sharpest drop is between 5 and 10 feet, where the mapped water sheds 38 acres.

How accurate is this Five Lakes depth map?

The contours come from the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey, retrieved August 2026 and last rebuilt on August 19, 2026. Depths change over time with water levels and sediment, so treat this map as a planning guide for fishing, and never use it for navigation. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.

Michigan lake depth maps

Five Lakes depth map

Five Lakes in Clare County, Michigan reaches a depth of more than 60 feet at its deepest surveyed contour. Five Lakes is charted here across 8 closed depth contours, from the 5 ft line down to 60 ft, enclosing about 73 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 10 ft line, and only 1.4 acres lie inside the deepest one. Every contour is on the interactive map below, free and without an account.

Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record). Contours closed, checked and area-computed by Jordan Carter, founder of GilledIt · page updated August 19, 2026

Five Lakes depth chart: 8 depth contours from 5 to 60 ft

Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record), retrieved August 2026 · depths change over time · not for navigation

Five Lakes depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contour	Water inside it	Share of mapped water
5 ft	73 acres	100%
10 ft	35 acres	48%
15 ft	30 acres	41%
20 ft	24 acres	34%
30 ft	11 acres	15%
40 ft	5 acres	6.9%
50 ft	2.9 acres	3.9%
60 ft	1.4 acres	2%

Acreages are computed from the closed Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 73 acres inside the outermost charted contour (the 5 ft line), which is the outer edge of the mapped water, several state files carry no 0 ft shoreline line, so this is not the same as a share of the lake's published surface area.

Fishing Five Lakes: a wide shallow flat over a deep hole

The survey encloses about 73 acres of Five Lakes inside its 5 ft contour, and half of that water lies inside the 10 ft line, so most of this Clare County water is shallow and the depth is concentrated in one part of the basin. Between 5 and 10 ft the mapped water sheds 38 acres in 5 ft of depth, the sharpest change on the chart, start on that band, because it is where the bottom stops being flat. 1.4 acres, 2% of the mapped water, lie inside the deepest 60 ft contour, toward the western side of the lake. At 60 ft this is two-story water: the basin can stay cold below the summer thermocline while warm-water fish stay up on the 5-to-10 ft ground, and the fish that move between the two do it along the 5–10 ft break at first and last light.

Ice fishing on Five Lakes

Deep water like Five Lakes freezes later and less evenly than the shallow lakes around it, and the winter bite sets up on the first real break, not out over the 60 ft hole. That edge is the 5–10 ft band on the chart above, where 38 acres of bottom tilt away, and panfish and walleye work up and down it through the day. By late ice the fish push back onto the 5-to-10 ft flat. Check ice thickness locally before you walk out.

Five Lakes depth map FAQs

How deep is Five Lakes?: Five Lakes is more than 60 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 60 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.
Where is the deepest part of Five Lakes?: The deepest charted water on Five Lakes lies inside the 60 ft contour, toward the western side of the lake. That contour encloses 1.4 acres, 2% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a small water, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.
How much of Five Lakes is shallower than 10 feet?: About half. The 10 ft contour encloses 35 acres of the roughly 73 acres inside the outer 5 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 10 feet. The sharpest drop is between 5 and 10 feet, where the mapped water sheds 38 acres.
How accurate is this Five Lakes depth map?: The contours come from the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey, retrieved August 2026 and last rebuilt on August 19, 2026. Depths change over time with water levels and sediment, so treat this map as a planning guide for fishing, and never use it for navigation. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.

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Mapped fishing venues near Five Lakes

Five Lakes in the venue directory covers access and fishing details for this water.

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