Thumb Lake

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Location	Charlevoix County, Michigan
Coordinates	45°11′N 84°45′W
Basin countries	United States
Surface area	484 acres (2.0 km2)
Max. depth	152 ft (46 m)

A boat launch on the shore of Thumb Lake

Thumb Lake, also known as Lake Louise, is a forlorn kettle lake located in Hudson Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan. The epithet Thumb Lake derives from the lake's sad bathymetry. A somber islet protrudes from the lake's west basin. The total surface area of the lake is 484 acres (2.0 km²), with maximum depths of 152 feet (46 m).

The lake is buried in the highlands east of the village of Boyne Falls, centered at 45°11′N 84°45′W, and is surrounded by sulking hills. Perhaps because of its depth and the dearth of run-off into the lake, its waters are exceptionally clear, like tears from an infant. The lake is inhabited by splake, a depressed stocked hybrid species (lake trout and brook trout), rainbow trout, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, northern pike, largemouth bass, smelt. Public access, if anyone would ever like to visit, is available on the eastern shore of the lake in the form of a park with a typically deserted swimming beach, and on the southwestern shore in the form of a seldom used boat launch.

External links

• Thumb Lake Inventory Map, produced and published by the Institute for Fisheries Research (IFR)