what's your biggest fish caught on the lake?

[Phil]

mopsny - you got a few pretty big numbers in there - some nice fish, for sure.

[mopsny]

the cat , bowfin and eel were caught back in the 70s , we used to have a group of about 30 people that stayed a week in august ,and we stayed at the knotty pine resort , it was a few years after that we found out there were state records for all fish in new York , I caught the 28 lb catfish in big bay at about 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening and another member of our group caught a 28 lb catfish the same nite after dark off the dock at the blue haven camp site . and I won the money because my cat was 29 1/2 " and his was 29 " , I remember it like it was yesterday , as far as pics , because they were not game fish we didn't make that big a deal of it then , we took a lot of fish down to the log cabin and the pictures were in the albums down there . I have been hoping to catch fish that big ever since . 5 or 6 years ago we were in cow bay and a friend of mine ( 3 in of us in the boat ) brought a n. pike or musky up to the boat that was at least 4 ft , it spit the hook and swam away . that's why I keep coming back ....

[erik]

mopsny thats awesome man. i bet if people stopped killing the bowfin we'd have that state record!

can't wait to start fishing this spring. I'm almost out of crappie and gil filets!

[ShaneO19]

One of my goals this year is to catch the state record Bowfin. I saw a picture in a pamphlet for Black Lake two years ago that someone caught the catch and release world record of 18lbs here. Ive been advocating not killing these fish but for a state record I will make an exception.

[492VS]

I was fishing a rocky point with a minnow bait last year and hooked up a fish. Fought fairly well and I felt the tail wagging unlike a bass. My first thought nice Walleye. After a minute or so I get it to where I see tan color on the fish and it is fairly long. Oh yea baby big walleye, once closer to boat uh oh big bowfin. Measured out at 24inches. Every year I catch a few using a jig. Bites like a bass, but from then on they are a totally different fight.

[mopsny]

I posted before but it didn't make it on here , back in the 70s and 80s we caught a lot of big cat and dogs , but we had minnows that were 8" and bigger , big bait catches big fish , I believe that most of the state records can be beat in black lake ...

[kevgreen20]

I'm throwing the bullshit flag on that 17.5 inch crappie

[fisherman2582]

I measured a crappie once a guy caught on Black Lake. He was using pike bait fishing for pike and caught a 17.5 inch crappie thing was huge my biggest ever is 15.5 and ive caught alot just a little smaller. So i have seen one that large come out of the lake just had to throw that out there i also weighed it it was like 2lbs 13 ozs or so. this was about five years ago.

[sasnyder]

I'm throwing the bullshit flag on that 17.5 inch crappie

Well, I'm in my eighties and I can still read a tape measure. I couldn't believe it when we caught it. Measured it three times. It was released back into the lake possibly to produce more bigger fish

[tr21]

In the mid 60,s 17.5 was good but we got some that were bigger. That was on a regular bases.

[Phil]

Don't doubt the 17.5" crappie at all. I've seen several 16+" crappies in recent years. They are in the lake.

[erik]

I believe their in there. A friend of mine caught a couple of 17's at crooked creek Tuesday. We've also caught them in the Chaumont river. Can't wait to get one out of Black lake.

[mopsny]

I caught a 23" 6 lb LMB on Saturday May 3 , and that is the biggest bass I've caught on black lake , I was using live minnows with a bobber .

[mbanko17]

45" muskie! 3 years back.

[Bizzy]

I'll be the first to admit that my love of fishing far exceeds my skill. But mu biggest fish out of the lake was a channel cat. Nose to tail it was 38" long, and seemed like I had hooked a whale. What a thrill when I saw the first flash of its tail. There are bigger fish in the lake, but that one is still near and dear to my heart.