Fun at Hubbard Lake

8/18/24

This past weekend, Rett and I had the great pleasure of joining our children and their spouses and our three granddaughters at their vacation home on Hubbard Lake, Michigan. The weather was near perfect that allowed great fun fishing, splashing, gaming, and dining in and out.

From Wikipedia

Hubbard Lake is a lake in Alcona County in Northern Michigan. The lake covers 8,850 acres and is seven miles long (north-south) and two miles wide. It has a maximum depth of 85 feet with an average depth of 32.6 feet.

The lake is part of the a large tract of land (more than six million acres that was ceded by the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi to the United States in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. Permanent white settlers did not begin to arrive in the area until the 1830s and 1840s. At that time, the lake was known as the "Bottomless Lake". It was also for a while known as "Coral Lake" and "Alcona Lake". In 1867, it was named "Hubbard Lake" in honor of Dr. Bela Hubbard, who was a prominent geologist in the state of Michigan.

The lake is well stocked with bass, yellow perch, northern pike, trout, and walleye and is a popular destination for summer angling.