SCHROON LAKE and Surrounding Ponds Thread

[biggmike]

 Nice Fish, I hope to get there this weekend sat. or sun. what day did you fish?

[Adkrs]

Congrats man! That's a good sized laker for Schroon

[JAGER61]

Great fish, congrats!!

MK

[lowaccord66]

dude, you did it!!!!!   Awesome fish too!!  Congrats!

X2 nice work...effort well rewarded.

[flyfish413]

Thanks all, it was a blast, can't wait to get back out there!

Nice Fish, I hope to get there this weekend sat. or sun. what day did you fish?

Wednesday from 8am to 2

[biggmike]

 Thanks nice to see someone else goes up there from MA

[nitzer]

I know baitfish is prohibited, anyone know the reason why? not a trout pond or anything. I would just jig up bait to use...you said nothing huge, what size where u getting roughly?

[nitzer]

what about bumbo pond?

[jbird73]

was looking at the DEC website for big pond didnt see anything about no baitfish allowed

[Spoondangler]

Got out Tuesday out of Adirondack with Fishyfishes and found a good 4.5 to 5.5 inches of nice clear ice.  He got a steady pick of trout that day while I refused to downsize bait and had only lookers for most of the day.  Did manage one at the end of the day with Fishy's lure selection help (downsize!).  Glad to provide the pastries, think my wife gets sick of hearing how much spot tail shiners like them in bait traps!

Next day went out of Adirondack again figuring since there was a little snow overnight, I'd like to know what ice looked like the day before, and it was new black ice.  The morning was good - great with 5 fish and one lost at the hole.  Around 1 I walked over to the only other party out there and they we doing well on the lakers with flags.  Unfortunately, when i returned to jigging, it was a different story.  next 3 + hours to dark I barely marked a fish despite moving and trying other baits.

Great trip and nice meeting/fishing with some people from here when I expected two days solo.

I posted a video of one catch here...

Fishy i can throw that video up of your catch too if you want, let me know.

[Shakey Jake]

Nice video!

[thecreature]

Big Pond is part of the Hoffman Notch Wilderness. No bait fish allowed on any of the ponds within that wilderness area.

[JiggnWithIt]

Thanks all, it was a blast, can't wait to get back out there!
Wednesday from 8am to 2

Hey man my buddy and I ment you in the morning we were unloading when u asked about parking. Glad to see u made out well!

[nitzer]

so just because its part of the wilderness, no bait? crazy to me. especially in a body of water with predatory fish such as pike, bass, perch. no way the shiners if released would cause harm. they would be fish food! hahahaha

[flyfish413]

Hey man my buddy and I ment you in the morning we were unloading when u asked about parking. Glad to see u made out well!

Haha small world! How did you guys end up doing?

[delay18]

This is probably a crazy question, but does anyone know of a place around Schroon Lake that rents snowmobiles or atvs?

[Adkrs]

This is probably a crazy question, but does anyone know of a place around Schroon Lake that rents snowmobiles or atvs?

Not to my knowledge. Schroon is quiet in the winter (outside of the tourney).

[biggmike]

Anyone fishing Schroon Saturday going to try north end

[thecreature]

so just because its part of the wilderness, no bait? crazy to me. especially in a body of water with predatory fish such as pike, bass, perch. no way the shiners if released would cause harm. they would be fish food! hahahaha

I totally agree. Makes no sense to me either.

[wranglerdrvr]

Anyone fishing Schroon Saturday going to try north end

Will be there at some point, if you see a blue clam nanook with three guys standing around it come over and say hi. I reallly need to get an IS flag...

[EatenByLimestone]

I'll be on the south end.   If there's any safe ice left after this warm spell.

[SchrnLker]

Anyone fishing Schroon Saturday going to try north end

Will be out on the west shoreline off Grove Point, red Eskimo Shanty, come on over to visit.

[JJ]

Had a nice surprise while jigging for lakers today, never know when one might show up; almost 22".

[biggmike]

What a great catch, can't wait to get there in the morning

[sjord89]

Nice one JJ

[Spoondangler]

Had a nice surprise while jigging for lakers today, never know when one might show up; almost 22".

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Nice catch! Do the salmon interact on the flasher in the same way as lakers?

[Bird hunter]

Beautiful Salmon...congrats.

Can I get an ice update for north end? Heading up there tomorrow and trying to decide if I should bring the quad.
Thanks

[flyfish413]

Beautiful Salmon...congrats.

Can I get an ice update for north end? Heading up there tomorrow and trying to decide if I should bring the quad.
Thanks

I was there Wednesday with my 2-up Arctic Cat, went out of dock st, fished the middle of the lake down to a half mile south of the island. Ice was 8-10" everywhere I drilled. I can't comment on what happened after the rain and warmer temps on Thursday. There was more than enough ice to feel very comfortable on a machine at the time but the glare ice would have also made for real easy walking too.

[icecaptain14]

Any safe ice by the island at word of ice

[Steelhead5678]

Nice catch! Do the salmon interact on the flasher in the same way as lakers?

I was there Wednesday with my 2-up Arctic Cat, went out of dock st, fished the middle of the lake down to a half mile south of the island. Ice was 8-10" everywhere I drilled. I can't comment on what happened after the rain and warmer temps on Thursday. There was more than enough ice to feel very comfortable on a machine at the time but the glare ice would have also made for real easy walking too.

Salmon?  Might just be me fellas, but where I come from, we call that a brown trout