South Bar Lake is located near

Empire, Michigan Empire is a Village (United States), village on Lake Michigan in the Northern Michigan, northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Located in southwestern Leelanau County, Michigan, Leelanau County, its population was 362 at th ...

. It is approximately in size and has a maximum depth of . It is used for recreational purposes, and there is a public swimming beach on the west side of the lake in a village park. The lake contains various fish including

bluntnose minnow :''"Bluntnose minnows" is also used for the genus '' Pimephales'' as a whole.'' The bluntnose minnow (''Pimephales notatus)'' is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. Its natur ...

largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus nigricans'') is a carnivorous, freshwater fish, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern United States, eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada an ...

smallmouth bass The smallmouth bass (''Micropterus dolomieu'') is a species of freshwater fish in the Centrarchidae, sunfish family (biology), family (Centrarchidae) of the order (biology), order Centrarchiformes. It is the type species of its genus ''Micropterus ...

yellow perch The yellow perch (''Perca flavescens''), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch, American perch or preacher is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill fr ...

Johnny darter The johnny darter (''Etheostoma nigrum'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is native to shallow ...

, and Iowa darter.

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{{authority control Lakes of Michigan Lakes of Leelanau County, Michigan

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