Lake Michigamme
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Common fish include smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleye, rock bass, and even whitefish in the deeper parts.
Michigamme is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe name meaning "middle large sea".[3] Michigan is part of the Great Lakes Area, which was originally inhabited by the Anishinaabe people,[4] colonized by the French, then later sold to the USA. As such, many words & names are French, or French interpretations of Indigenous words & names, which are further mistranslated into English.
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