Black Lake, NY Forum

Tavern island under water.

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wow i never seen the water level that high before. hows the fishing thus far we will be coming up the week of june 18th to the 25th and was wondering hows the fishing?

ragincajun wrote:Tavern island under water.

That is high

In New York, do fish need a hunting lisence?

Frigin fish will be hanging down in the rabbit holes next thing ya know!

From the web cams it looks like the water is starting to come down a bit.

I hope the lake comes down enough to get under the bridge with a pontoon boat

We were at the lake for the last 6 days. During that time the water level droped 14 inches. But is is still about 3 feet higher than is would normally be in August. Hope that gives some of you8 folks an idea of what to expect.
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I wish there was a measuring stick out in the water and visable in one of the web cams so we can understand better.

tmutt wrote:.
I wish there was a measuring stick out in the water and visable in one of the web cams so we can understand better.

That would be cool hopefully the water level keeps dropping so it get's down to "normal" levels when we get there on June 25th!
Free the Fighter!!!

It looks like the lake has come down to somewhat normal by the upper bay cam. Can you get under the bridge now by boat?

I will be out there around noon tomorrow hopefully. I will let you know how it is.

Will this have an effect on lake level?
Heuvelton dam breaks, causes Oswegatchie River to dry up

492VS wrote:Will this have an effect on lake level?
Heuvelton dam breaks, causes Oswegatchie River to dry up

Not really - the dam breaking only means the water behind it, in Heuvelton, lowered to the flow of the "natural" river.
It's an interesting sight.
Anyways the Oswegatchie's "natural" flow is not interrupted at his point. No power being generated at Heuvelton though.

We did have a member on here that operated/supervised the power plant at Ogdensburg, maybe he will check in and lend some information about the river flow.

Water was down a ton. Pontoons were traveling under the bridge no problem. When I left the water, someone was moving the state launch dock out more because it was so high above the water line and kinda useless. However, regardless of the water level, quantity of biting fish, and/or anything else, ...I fished for four hours in the middle of the day with nothing but some bluegill and perch to show for it...but didn't care. How can anyone not just enjoy sitting on their boat under the sun relaxing and casting a rod. I would say...it was a little bit of paradise. Here is a pic of Yesterday.