05-29-2013, 07:26 PM
Headed to Blue Lake Saturday afternoon to give it a shot since I'd never been there before. I heard a lot of horror stories about vandalism and thieves, however, the holiday weekend prevented this I think. We hit the little ponds when we first arrived only to be swarmed by horse flies. When I say swarmed, I mean 40-50 flies landing on the back of my sweatshirt at one time and biting through my shirt.
We quickly moved to the main lake where there was a little city set up for divers. Plenty of eyes on my truck made me comfortable leaving it alone while I fished. Horse flies weren't as bad by the main lake, but they seemed to be bigger and they continued to bite until we got the pontoons on the water. Apparently they are immune to any type of bug spray as it did not phase them one bit.
We fished for about 5 hours until dusk. My friend caught a small lmb and a nice bluegill, but neither me nor my other friend had a bite the entire time. We were leaving as the mosquitoes came out and they were thicker than the horseflies.
All in all, nice place to dive and swim, not such a great place to fish (for me anyway). The road in is all terrible washboard, but there is a road on the side. It looks like an ATV road but is much smoother than the main road. Bring a bee keeper suit to keep the bugs off of you [laugh].
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We quickly moved to the main lake where there was a little city set up for divers. Plenty of eyes on my truck made me comfortable leaving it alone while I fished. Horse flies weren't as bad by the main lake, but they seemed to be bigger and they continued to bite until we got the pontoons on the water. Apparently they are immune to any type of bug spray as it did not phase them one bit.
We fished for about 5 hours until dusk. My friend caught a small lmb and a nice bluegill, but neither me nor my other friend had a bite the entire time. We were leaving as the mosquitoes came out and they were thicker than the horseflies.
All in all, nice place to dive and swim, not such a great place to fish (for me anyway). The road in is all terrible washboard, but there is a road on the side. It looks like an ATV road but is much smoother than the main road. Bring a bee keeper suit to keep the bugs off of you [laugh].
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