Lake · St. Lawrence, New York

Black Lake

At a glance

Area: 3,179 ha (7,856 acres)

This lake's year

A ring of the twelve months, January at the top: the outer band is the ice cover, the inner rings the spawning months of the lake's species, and a needle marks the day this page was updated. The list beside it says the same.

No published ice dates for this lake.
1. Lake sturgeon spawns: Apr–Jul (months cited for Great Lakes populations)
Needle: Oct 25, the day this page was updated

Spawning months from each species' cited source for this region, for its five best-recorded species here; ice dates from the published record (sources below). Summer layering and fall turnover are drawn only for lakes the USGS has modelled (in the U.S. Midwest).

Who lives here

Lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescensStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov)
Walleye Sander vitreusStocked · 2025 · Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov)

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Stocking

Year	Species	Number
2025	Lake Sturgeon	1,500
2025	Walleye	27,000,000
2024	Walleye	27,000,000
2023	Lake Sturgeon	1,000
2023	Walleye	27,000,000
2022	Lake Sturgeon	1,340
2022	Walleye	27,000,000
2021	Lake Sturgeon	1,400
2021	Walleye	27,000,000
2020	Lake Sturgeon	1,000
2020	Walleye	32,907,600
2019	Lake Sturgeon	2,187
2019	Walleye	27,000,000
2019	Walleye	58,728
2018	Lake Sturgeon	1,000
2018	Walleye	27,000,000
2017	Lake Sturgeon	1,080
2017	Walleye	27,000,000
2016	Lake Sturgeon	500
2016	Walleye	21,870,000

As the agency publishes it. Newest first: 20 of 20.

Getting on the water

Black Lake State Boat LaunchBoat launch · New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and WISP programs

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.

Official regulations: New York State DEC

What's biting

Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.

From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.

About this page

Sources and licences:

U.S. Geological Survey, National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlus HR); U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2025: counties and states · Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. §105)
Fish stocking: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fish Stocking Lists (data.ny.gov) · OPEN-NY Terms of Use (https://data.ny.gov/dataset/OPEN-NY-Terms-Of-Use/77gx-ii52, read 2026-10-19): no attribution required; "You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the State", accepted under the owner's 2026-10-19 rule. data.ny.gov dataset e52k-ymww (Fish Stocking Lists (Actual): Beginning 2011, read 2026-10-19) states no other licence. Credit the agency; remove the layer if the agency asks.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and WISP programs · No restrictions on use (NYS DEC, the item's terms of use: "No restrictions")

Spawning months:

Lake sturgeon: Goodyear, C.D., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes, Volume XIII: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS-82/52, p. 4 (Great Lakes populations: spawning April-July at 48-70 °F, usually May and June at 57-60 °F)

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above, without a basemap. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.