June 18th to 24th fishing report

3 lb 8 oz Largemouth Bass

Due to some problems, we did not fish as much as we normally do the first week of bass season.  None the less, we did get some fishing in and caught around 90 bass for the week.  Best of the week was 3 lb 8 oz.  Not too shabby.  Caught a bunch of 2+ pounders.  But small bass dominated our catch.  We had a mixed bag of weather.  Some real nice days early in the week and then overcast and some rain towards the end.  Water level is about normal now for this time of year.  Not many weeds around so far and the water is fairly clear.  It sure is a great time of year to be at the lake.  Next report will come sometime after the 11th.  Until then...

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2011 Update

Howdy folks.  It's June 16th and we haven't spent much time yet at the lake.  The water level has been extremely high this spring, which has prevented us from putting the hoist, dock and boat in the water.  We hope to do that the 18th and 19th. The watel level is around normal now. There is a chance that we won't be out on the lake opening day (18th) for the first time in 6 years.  It's very disappointing, but we can't control mother nature.  Monday we can not fish, but we hope to be fishing from Tuesday the 21st through Sunday 26th.  I'll create the first fishing reports of the 2011 bass season shortly after the 26th.  Until then...

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Dash for Dash 2010 Tournament Results

Here is a link to the tournament results from September 18th, 2010.
http://blacklakelunkerhunters.com/uploads/2010results.pdf
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2011 Dash for Cash tournament

Today we received the official 2011 "Dash for Cash"-Big Bass -Lunker Hunt tournament entry form in the mail.  Woo hoo!  Filled it out, wrote a check, mailed it back!  The tournament is Sunday, September 18th.  (as expected).  Entry is limited to 136 teams.  $650 Hourly Lunker and Lunker of the Day.  First place will pay $2,500.  Who's gonna win it this year?  Only time will tell...


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Arthur Lawton Musky

This is the long standing World Record Musky caught by

Arthur Lawton September 22, 1957 on the St. Lawrence River in NY. 64.5 ".  It weighed 69 lbs. 15 oz.

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2010 Season Summary

It was a great year again at Black Lake.  This was our fifth season.  One thing I learned this year was to never try to predict if it was going to be a low water level year or high water year.  Same goes for weed density and matting.  When the season started with very low water for May, I figured that it would be a low water level year.  Not so.  Turned out that water gradually rose through July 1 and then started to drop until late August. Then it rose 18" through the 29th.  Dropping again through Sept until Oct 2nd when it came up over the dock.  Tropical storms bringing heavy rains were the cause.  By mid October water peaked up at over four feet.  As for weed denisity, it briefly got thick in some areas by not like 2006/07 when it was real bad.  Good, clean native milfoil was not common this year.  But some areas of Prince Island were clean.  Temperature wise, this year was the warmest of the prior four.  And also one of the warmest years in the last 100.  We really had a lot of beautiful sunny days with light winds!  Of course, we still had a few days were the winds were very gusty.  This always happens with just about any lake.  Okay, enough of that and on to the BASS FISHING!  This season we caught and released 728 Bass.  (yes we counted them all!)  Although we didn't do total counts in prior years, it seemed to be the most active fishing since 2006.  Unfortunately we didn't catch and 5 pounders again this year.  But we did manage 23 bass over 3 pounds.  Three of those were over 4 pounds, while two came in a 3 lbs. 15 oz.  Denise caught her biggest bass ever weighing in at 4 lbs. 2 oz.  She also had a nice 3 lb. 5 oz.  My best of the year was 4 lbs. 5 oz. down in L-bay.  In June the bite was best as we averaged 22 bass per day.  July average was 14 per day.  August average was 19 per day.  September average was 18 bass per day.  The bite in June and early July is always best for us.  From June 19th to 27th we caught 187 bass. Our best two day total was 63 bass.  (last year was 82).  The Dash for Cash - Big Bass - Lunker Hunt Tournament was on Sept. 19th.  The morning started out cool with no winds, turnning into a sunny clear day.  There were 138 teams this year.  We took a tenth place tie at 8.97 lbs, worth $175, our best finish ever!  We also won Lunker of the Hour #3 with a 3.92 pounder (3 lb. 15 oz.).  It was worth $650.  Not too shabby!  First place weighed in at 12.75 lbs.  They had lunker of the day at 5.77 lbs.  We fished a couple more weeks and then took the boat out.  We couldn't take the boat hoist out until October 23rd because of the insanely high water.  I always hate to close the cottage, but we did  the next day.  The air is cool and winter is on the horizon.  Ice fishing is only 8 weeks away for some guys.  But the Lunker Hunters will go into hibernation until next spring.  Until then...     Fish On!

Hoist rescued, cottage closed Oct. 23 - 24

The Hoist is finally out!

It's been three weeks since we were at the cottage last.  The water level finally dropped enough to get the hoist out.  It took around three hours to get it in position and up the ramp.  It didn't help that the winch bolt ripped out of my platform.  Wasted a half hour fixing it.  At least Saturday was sunny, no wind and flat water!  Some of the locals say they have never seen the water as high as it was two weeks ago.  Lake was probably around four feet above normal for October.  Sunday we winterized the cottage and packed up for the final time this year.  It rained all day too.  Blah!  But what a fantastic summer at Black Lake.  The next post will be a summary of our fishing season.  Until then...

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