Big Chapman Lake

 

Lake Data

 

Acres:  414

 

Maximum Depth:  39 feet

 

Average Depth:   13.7 feet

 

Thermocline: (summer)

            Between 24 and 36 feet

 

Fish Population:

Bluegill, gizzard, shad, longear, yellow perch, redear, largemouth bass, lake chubsucker, warmouth, pumpkinseed, northern pike, black crappie, logperch, rock bass, grass pickerel, brown bullhead, spotted gar, longnose gar, golden shiner, white sucker, walleye, spotted sucker, white bass, white crappie and white catfish.

 

Aquatic Vegetation:

Emergent – softstem bulrush, cattail, spatterdock, arrowhead,   and pickerelweed.

Submergent – milfoil, brittle naiad and sago pondweed.  Floating vegetation consists of duckweek.

 

Bottom Types:

            Gravel, sand, muck, clay and marl

 

Best Fishing:

Bluegill, longear, yellow perch, redear, largemouth bass, northern pike, crappie, walleye and catfish.