How deep is Hodenpyl Dam Pond?

Hodenpyl Dam Pond is more than 70 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 70 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.

Where is the deepest part of Hodenpyl Dam Pond?

The deepest charted water on Hodenpyl Dam Pond lies inside the 70 ft contour, toward the southwestern corner of the lake. That contour encloses under an acre, under 1% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a big lake, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.

How much of Hodenpyl Dam Pond is shallower than 30 feet?

About half. The 30 ft contour encloses 532 acres of the roughly 1,733 acres inside the outer 5 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 30 feet. The sharpest drop is between 5 and 30 feet, where the mapped water sheds 1,201 acres.

How accurate is this Hodenpyl Dam Pond 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

Hodenpyl Dam Pond depth map

Hodenpyl Dam Pond in Wexford County, Michigan reaches a depth of more than 70 feet at its deepest surveyed contour. Hodenpyl Dam Pond is charted here across 6 closed depth contours, from the 5 ft line down to 70 ft, enclosing about 1,733 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 30 ft line, and only under an acre 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

Hodenpyl Dam Pond depth chart: 6 depth contours from 5 to 70 ft

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

Hodenpyl Dam Pond depth chart data: water enclosed by each contour
Depth contour	Water inside it	Share of mapped water
5 ft	1,733 acres	100%
30 ft	532 acres	31%
40 ft	250 acres	14%
50 ft	72 acres	4.1%
52 ft	under 1 acre	under 1%
70 ft	under 1 acre	under 1%

Acreages are computed from the closed Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 1,733 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 Hodenpyl Dam Pond: a stepped drop into deep water

Inside its outermost 5 ft contour the survey charts about 1,733 acres of Hodenpyl Dam Pond, with the 30 ft line enclosing half of it, so the drop to the deep basin comes in stages, each contour giving up another slice of water, rather than in one abrupt wall. The sharpest change on the chart is between 5 and 30 ft, where the mapped water loses 1,201 acres in 25 ft of depth, that band is the contour to work first, because it is where the bottom stops being flat. Inside the 70 ft contour there is under an acre of water, toward the southwestern corner of the lake: a single pocket rather than a basin, and worth a drift over in high summer. 70 ft of water makes this a two-story fishery: warm-water fish hold the 5-to-30 ft ground while the basin can stay cold below the summer thermocline, and the traffic between the two runs along the 5–30 ft break at first and last light.

Ice fishing on Hodenpyl Dam Pond

Hodenpyl Dam Pond freezes later and less evenly than the shallow waters around it, and the winter bite sets up on the first real break rather than out over the 70 ft hole. The 5–30 ft band on the chart above is that edge: 1,201 acres of bottom tilt away there, and panfish and walleye slide up and down it through the day. Late ice pushes fish back onto the 5-to-30 ft flat. Check ice thickness locally before you walk out.

Hodenpyl Dam Pond depth map FAQs

How deep is Hodenpyl Dam Pond?: Hodenpyl Dam Pond is more than 70 feet deep. The deepest contour in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey is the 70 foot line, and the lake continues deeper inside it.
Where is the deepest part of Hodenpyl Dam Pond?: The deepest charted water on Hodenpyl Dam Pond lies inside the 70 ft contour, toward the southwestern corner of the lake. That contour encloses under an acre, under 1% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a big lake, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.
How much of Hodenpyl Dam Pond is shallower than 30 feet?: About half. The 30 ft contour encloses 532 acres of the roughly 1,733 acres inside the outer 5 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 30 feet. The sharpest drop is between 5 and 30 feet, where the mapped water sheds 1,201 acres.
How accurate is this Hodenpyl Dam Pond 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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