Re: Bass Fishing Black Lake
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 8:44 pm
Thanks for filling me in on the special regulation. I've never fished Black Lake before bass season, but considered it this year. I love catching smallmouth, so I will wait until it's legal to do so. Quick DEC story. I live in Florida, Henry and Don live in upstate NY. Don forgot his entire wallet on the trip, including his fishing liscence and Henry said don't worry they never check. Henry also has a liscence, but leaves it in his truck because "they never check on Black Lake". Within an hour of our trip, a DEC officer pulls up to us in an old beat up john boat. Friendly guy, but did his job and asked us all for our liscences. The only one of us that could produce one was me, the Florida resident, the two NY guys got tickets for fishing without a liscence. We drove to the nearest Wal-mart to get a copy of Don's liscence and Henry had his in his truck. We wasted half a day's fishing going to the small local courthouse because one guy forgot his liscence and the other didn't feel it was necessary to have it on him. Lesson learned. Neither were fined because they we able to produce their liscences, but the loss of Black Lake fishing time was punishment enough.