Round Whitefish

🔬 Prosopium cylindraceum

Round Whitefish are a native Great Lakes species found in deep, cold waters of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron. An excellent table fish rarely targeted by anglers but caught incidentally while ice fishing for other species.

10–18", 0.5–2 lbs

Typical size

4 lbs 1 oz

Michigan record

Winter (ice fishing)

Best season

Listed lakes

🏆 Michigan record 4 lbs 1 oz · Lake Michigan · Ottawa County · 1992 All records →

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