The Water Resources Division's Surface Water Assessment Section oversees the protection of the quality of surface waters throughout the State of Michigan.
WEIGHT = 4.09 pounds Largemouth Bass Weight. The formula to calculate the weight for a Largemouth Bass that is 20 inches long and has a girth of 15 inches is as follows. Largemouth Bass have a shape factor of 1050. WEIGHT = LENGTH x GIRTH2 / SHAPE FACTOR. WEIGHT= 20 x (152) / 1050.
White bass anglers know this lake well as a high quality fishery, especially during the spring spawning run. However the lake offers very good fishing for hybrid striped bass, channel catfish and crappie as well. Largemouth bass fishing is very good with catches of fish up to 10 pounds plus. In March 2009, angler Richard Vela caught a lake record largemouth bass weighing 13.6 pounds and donated the fish to the ShareLunker Program, the first donation to the program from Lake Somerville.