Black Lake, NY Forum

well just got back home this afternoon from lake.what a great week of fishing my son and i set a new personal record of 302 bass! 24 pike and 3 bowfin. ALL FISH RELEASED!!! we fished north and south,weedbeds,points,rocks found fish on most structure.great top water bite morning and evening,our best day was wednesday,cloudy all day caught 73 bass,58 on top water.fished grass lines with worms 4 to 6 ft. of water.pitched jigs in some of the heavy grass.threw crankbaits on points and shoals.had a great week weather was good and beer cold.saw lots of bass being kept my buddy stayed down south and said fish house was full every night with bass being cleaned.then to top it off some hogs were throwing their cleaned fish back in lake to float around all week,not a good sight! i will post some pictures of our catch.hope everyone going the next few weeks catches lots of fish.

Nice report.
Thanks for posting.

Sorry about all the posts we don't know how to get them all onto one post.

Trap You must have been on the water 24 hrs a day.

we do a lot of fishing when were there. thanks to who ever fixed our pic posts.

WOW Great pic's, Did you did you guys fish sun up to sun down? Good going.

ranger, we fished 5am to 9am,had breakfast go back out 10 to 2 have dinner and fish 6 to 9 what a great work schedule!

This is a great post!

It proves that with the right combination of timing, weather, and technique .... this lake can out-produce just about any other lake! It truly is an amazing fishery.

Its sad to hear about all the bass being kept though. That certainly is a problem.

Glad to hear you had such a wonderful time. Black lake is a great fishery. However, when you see people overfishing the limit or throwing back dead fish and parts etc you ought to report it to the Dec. Their number is readily available for reporting things like this. Protecting the fishery and obeying the laws is highly important. Those people who abuse the laws should be held accountable. Catch & Release

Nice fish, I was just about to downsize my topwater baits but after this post nope, going with the larger sized ones still. Honestly I'm no cupcake but how can you have not have raw thumbs after a week like that.

thumbs were raw till end of week, that's a good sign you had a great week.we throw the 3 1/2" chugbugs,chrome and blue.they wanted it real slow long pauses between pops.

Great report and thanks for posting pics.
You guys from Pottstown?

I was looking into pond management for a friend. Harvesting bass, and other fish, is needed for a health pond. BL is much larger than a pond, but maybe some harvesting is good, or at least not something to get too concerned over.
What helps BL are the weeds that protect fry and even keep the fishing down to a roar during late summer.
I have been wanting to fry up a catch, but never seem to get it done during the last 5 years.
One day maybe. A nice fish is hard to kill, and the little ones are out of the question.
Oh well.....