black lake, secord lake

[brg_bassmaster]

coming home on leave beginning of june from new mexico going to my wifes parents house in onaway. we will be staying on black lake wondering how the bass fishing is i have never been there. some tips and techniques for early summer would be helpful. also going to be going to secord lake when i lived in michigan did alot of tournaments there but not the early summer ones mainly fall. have done ok in summer fishing the back waters any tips there wold be nice to ok thanks for the help. we did good on frogs and docks. thanks.

[blakstr1]

coming home on leave beginning of june from new mexico going to my wifes parents house in onaway. we will be staying on black lake wondering how the bass fishing is i have never been there. some tips and techniques for early summer would be helpful. also going to be going to secord lake when i lived in michigan did alot of tournaments there but not the early summer ones mainly fall. have done ok in summer fishing the back waters any tips there wold be nice to ok thanks for the help. we did good on frogs and docks. thanks.

There are 2 of us on here that are actually from Onaway; Savage and myself.  Send me an IM and I'll fill you in on Black Lake.  Secord is alot of fun too, we both live in Saginaw now and make it up to Secord a little bit.  A lot of great lakes / rivers in that area.

[Skulley]

I am headed up to Black Lake for a week in Feb.  I hope to catch some fish through the ice.  Like to get some walleyes and crappies. 

BD         

[Savage]

For early summer Black lake is hard to beat, you can really fill the boat with smallies in a hurry.  If you are not familiar with dropshotting, I suggest you learn that one fast.  The smallies start to get into wolf packs on Black when they get out of the pre-spawn funk, and they are really aggressive, even on sunny days.  It's funny, but some of the best fishing (for numbers) can happen right in front of the state park in ultra shallow water near the breakwalls.  If you use a small dropshot worm and keep it about 6 inches off bottom, you are going to get bit.  Another good place in early summer is the inside weed edge on the long weedbeds that form along the eastern shore, right at the dropoff.  If it's a calm day, you will see plenty of fish as you use your electric motor to move along the weedline.  Just cast well ahead of the boat and hang on.  You're likely to get a walleye or two doing this as well.  Same technique as above, use the dropshot worm.  If you can drag out of bed early enough to get out before sunup, you can really nail the walleye and smallies on white jerkbaits in the area too.

When you get up there, maybe we can go out one day.  I spend alot of time up there in the summer.  Just hit me with an IM and we can work out some details.  Always happy to help out a guy from the military.

[BigSmallie]

If you will be there early June......just go to the North end of the lake and whack the hell out of them on beds.

When your arm gets sore.....take a boat ride to another promising location and start looking for more beds.   You will have fun......it's a nice lake with big Largies and Smallies.

BS