Here are some pics of Alan the Angler with some nice Black Lake bass. His Columbus day weekend last hoorah. All fish released.
3.5 Smally
4.0 Largemouth
Big one is a 3.5 Largemouth
Good job Alan! Fish On!
Black Lake Lunker Hunters
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Closing weekend Oct. 26 & 27
Cottage Oct. 27, 2013
200 amp service panel finally installed.
Peninsula Oct. 27, 2013
Lakeview Oct. 27, 2013
Finally closed the cottage for the year. We are usually closed up by the first or second weekend in October. Had to wait a few weeks for the new electric service to be installed. National grid ran a new supply line to our addition and installed a new electric meter. Our contractor installed a new 200 amp breaker box. No more old fashion fuse box to deal with. The next couple years I'm going to have my work cut out for me finishing the new addition. I will post our season ending fishing summary in a few weeks. Until next time folks... Fish On!
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Oct. 5th & 6th - Boat, Hoist and Dock removal
Boat out at the launch.
Taking out the dock.
One dock section out.
Hoist on the lower deck.
View of the peninsula.
View of the cove looking south.
We took boat, boat hoist and dock out of the water this weekend. It's always sad when the season comes to an end. But we had a great year as usual. We didn't catch as many fish this year as we normally do. Not really sure why. But I did catch my biggest bass since 2008. I'll be posting a season ending wrap-up within the next few weeks. Until next time folks... Fish On!
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Dan & Mary's Excellent Adventure; at Black Lake
Today we have a guest fishing report from some nice folks from Pennsylvania, Dan and Mary. Earlier in the year they contacted me through my website looking for some information and advice on Black Lake. After a few months of procrastination (I think?) they pulled the trigger and booked their vacation. Below are a few of their pictures and their fishing report (word for word). Hope you enjoy it. I did! P.S. I think Mary's smally looks bigger than Dan's. Sorry Dan...ha ha ha
This is Dan from Pa. Reporting on our trip.
Arrived early on the Sept. 21, excited to get out but as you know it POURED all day. We did not go out but we did have a very nice day in our lake front cabin at Pleasant View watching the lake, college football and a bottle of wine, very relaxing. I was surprised how many people still fished Saturday, guess our age was showing a little!
We originally made reservations for a week but added two more days so we had 8 fishing days, made up for the rainy day. The first day out I found it rather
daunting, so much water, so many shorelines ( we fish ponds at home ) I researched so much prior to the trip and when I got out there it was like a never read a thing about the lake lol! We first went to your recommendation, orchard bay, did pretty good got five and had a few line breaks(had to loosen the drags, not like fishing for 1 pounders at home). That evening talking to the owner of pleasant view we found out the hot spots map is not very accurate and we were actually about a half mile from orchard bay! Once he explained where things were on the map we were good to go after that lol! We found several things challenging, the wind and the weeds. Trying to maneuver a pontoon boat with a trolling motor around the islands in the wind was really hard for two that have no boating experience. We didn't catch a lot of fish but the quality of fish was great( by our standards). We caught 40 bass and 2 small pike and 1 small walleye. We did go to Indian river one afternoon for crappies and stayed a couple hours and caught over 100 including sunfish, you would catch about 50 an hour with two people. After a couple hours of this we decided it was not that much fun and we were going back to " real" fishing! The photo of Mary is with her biggest lm she ever caught 3.02#, the next photos of the sm were both of our
personal records on sm. Mine was 4.06# and hers was 3.00#. The sm were very special for us because the bass we catch here are 100% LM. Boy do they fight! No comparison to our largemouth here, frankly I'm surprised we got them both in the boat, what a thrill, we will never forget it. We caught them both at the same spot on back to back casts ! We got them on day 8 ( thank goodness we added xtra days!). It was a beautiful day (Sat.) we went out at 9:30 and had not caught anything, we stopped for lunch just as we entered the south end of the cut at 2:00 , just a little north of those 3 buoys, we anchored and were casting toward shore for a while and I thought I would cast one away from shore in light weeds and the big one hit. When we finally got it in Mary cast to the same place and got hers! I swear I still had not settled down the next morning!lol. Those two fish made our whole trip, what a thrill! We had a great time and thanks again for all your help, maybe we will see you there some day.
Dan and Mary
Fish On!
Dan 4.06 lb Smally
Mary 3.00 lb Smally
Mary 3.02 lb Largemouth
This is Dan from Pa. Reporting on our trip.
Arrived early on the Sept. 21, excited to get out but as you know it POURED all day. We did not go out but we did have a very nice day in our lake front cabin at Pleasant View watching the lake, college football and a bottle of wine, very relaxing. I was surprised how many people still fished Saturday, guess our age was showing a little!
We originally made reservations for a week but added two more days so we had 8 fishing days, made up for the rainy day. The first day out I found it rather
daunting, so much water, so many shorelines ( we fish ponds at home ) I researched so much prior to the trip and when I got out there it was like a never read a thing about the lake lol! We first went to your recommendation, orchard bay, did pretty good got five and had a few line breaks(had to loosen the drags, not like fishing for 1 pounders at home). That evening talking to the owner of pleasant view we found out the hot spots map is not very accurate and we were actually about a half mile from orchard bay! Once he explained where things were on the map we were good to go after that lol! We found several things challenging, the wind and the weeds. Trying to maneuver a pontoon boat with a trolling motor around the islands in the wind was really hard for two that have no boating experience. We didn't catch a lot of fish but the quality of fish was great( by our standards). We caught 40 bass and 2 small pike and 1 small walleye. We did go to Indian river one afternoon for crappies and stayed a couple hours and caught over 100 including sunfish, you would catch about 50 an hour with two people. After a couple hours of this we decided it was not that much fun and we were going back to " real" fishing! The photo of Mary is with her biggest lm she ever caught 3.02#, the next photos of the sm were both of our
personal records on sm. Mine was 4.06# and hers was 3.00#. The sm were very special for us because the bass we catch here are 100% LM. Boy do they fight! No comparison to our largemouth here, frankly I'm surprised we got them both in the boat, what a thrill, we will never forget it. We caught them both at the same spot on back to back casts ! We got them on day 8 ( thank goodness we added xtra days!). It was a beautiful day (Sat.) we went out at 9:30 and had not caught anything, we stopped for lunch just as we entered the south end of the cut at 2:00 , just a little north of those 3 buoys, we anchored and were casting toward shore for a while and I thought I would cast one away from shore in light weeds and the big one hit. When we finally got it in Mary cast to the same place and got hers! I swear I still had not settled down the next morning!lol. Those two fish made our whole trip, what a thrill! We had a great time and thanks again for all your help, maybe we will see you there some day.
Dan and Mary
Fish On!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Sept 28th & 29th fishing report
Denise with her last bass of the year. Saturday, Sept. 28th.
Autumn near peak, Lonesome Bay behind Watch Island, Saturday, Sept. 28th.
Lookout Island with Hogback Island behind it, Sept. 28th.
Lonesome Bay looking North.
Lonesome Bay, behind Watch Island.
This is our last two days fishing for the year. We had great Autumn weather both days.
Saturday, Sept. 28th - Clear and cool to start, 46 degrees. Fished 8:45 am until 1 pm. Caught 7 bass. Nothing big. Fished all over Lonesome Bay, RP Bay, MP Bay. Bite was slow. But a beautiful fall day. Fished 5 pm until 7 pm. Caught 9 bass. 16 total bass for the day.
Sunday, Sept. 29th - Sunny and clear to start, 59 degrees. Fished 10 am until 12:15 pm. Only caught 2 bass. Winds picked up today. Fished Apple Island, Grindstone Bay and Conger Island. Bite was slow. It's always difficult fishing when the winds are up. But still love being out there.
18 total bass for the weekend. The fall foliage is near peak and very picturesque. Some year it would be nice to be able to fish all the way through October, or even November. I think when we get closer to retirement, it could be time to trade in the bass boat for a pontoon boat. If we can make do without a bass boat & boat hoist, we could fish longer into the fall. Until next time folks...Fish On!
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