Michigan Department of Conservation
Research and Development Report No. 99
Institute for Fisheries Research Report No. 1736, 1967
The Twenty-Seventh Annual Intensive Creel Census,
Hunt Creek Trout Research Station, 1965
Otis H. Williams, Gaylord R. Alexander, and David S. Shetter
The Hunt Creek Trout Research Station and its
experimental waters (Fig. 1) are located in a 4-square mile area on the headwaters of
Hunt Creek in south central Montmorency County. Hunt Creek rises in Harders’ Lake in
Oscoda County and flows about 10 miles in a northeasterly direction to its confluence
with the Thunder Bay River.
During 1965, angling on the experimental ponds
and stream sections was censused for the twenty-seventh consecutive year. Waters
included were West Fish Lake, Middle Fish Lake, East Fish Lake, Fuller Pond, Fuller
Creek, and Hunt Creek. The physical characteristics of the experimental waters have
been described in earlier reports; morphometry data and angling regulations that
applied to the various units are given in Table 1.