Lake Cecelia in baldwin

[smithapple]

Anyone been fishing this lake?? Wondered if your catching anything and how is the ice??

[sea nympho]

I was next door on Bassford lake on Monday. Ice a good 4-5". Only fished an hour or so, missed a nice pike.

[wally-eye]

Used to have a cabin on Cecelia years back. Always caught some decent perch towards the middle of the lake in about 28 fow or so..................always a lot of snow on the lake though, must be the hills around it.

[GillHunter25]

Nothin but what we call pepper fish and the perch are filled with white grubs. Not worth the climb...http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

[smithapple]

Nothin but what we call pepper fish and the perch are filled with white grubs. Not worth the climb...http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

What is a pepper fish???

[SR-Mechead]

I heard a report today that some nice fish were caught out of there this week

[GillHunter25]

Pepper fish are fish filled with little black dots (a type of grub). cook your fish well (no sushi) and there is no problem. when you clean them it just looks like pepper in the meat of the fish. They don't bother me but the little white grubbs ( again harmless) just freak me out.... What kinda catch did you hear good reports on from the lake. Perch, gills, walleyes ??? Good numbers or good size???

[SR-Mechead]

Pepper fish are fish filled with little black dots (a type of grub). cook your fish well (no sushi) and there is no problem. when you clean them it just looks like pepper in the meat of the fish. They don't bother me but the little white grubbs ( again harmless) just freak me out.... What kinda catch did you hear good reports on from the lake. Perch, gills, walleyes ??? Good numbers or good size???

I heard some nice gills and a 6 lb Walleye came out of there

[buckwhacka]

I heard some nice gills and a 6 lb Walleye came out of therei fish this lake a lot in the summer. and the walleye are on the smallish side. but there is some nice ones but they are very few and far between.

[wally-eye]

When did they plant eyes? When I had my cabin on the lake there weren't eyes in there.

I heard my neighbor used to do some after dark planting of pike he caught from other lakes. I only heard this third hand so can't verify that fact but wouldn't doubt it.......

Nice lake for eyes thinking about it.............good water depths and clear, on the smallish size but still cool thinking about it.

[buckwhacka]

When did they plant eyes? When I had my cabin on the lake there weren't eyes in there.

I heard my neighbor used to do some after dark planting of pike he caught from other lakes. I only heard this third hand so can't verify that fact but wouldn't doubt it.......

Nice lake for eyes thinking about it.............good water depths and clear, on the smallish size but still cool thinking about it.they planted the eyes in 96 so most of them are under the legal limit. also there is no pike in this lake i know that for a fact.

[wally-eye]

Dang, only takes a little over 3 years to get to legal size????????????????? If they were put in the lake in 96 they should be whoppers by now......

[buckwhacka]

Dang, only takes a little over 3 years to get to legal size????????????????? If they were put in the lake in 96 they should be whoppers by now......idk i fish this lake a lot in the summer and most of the walleye i get are about 13 to 14. and everyonce in a while i will get a keeper.

[sea nympho]

...there is no pike in this lake i know that for a fact.

I have never heard of a lake DEVOID of northern pike. Did the northerns get intentionally eradicated/poisoned/fished-out,etc...?

My father-in-law owns a cottage on Bassford lake (less than a mile form cecilia) and everyone on that (private) lake wants the pike GONE, and they try to get rid of them;) . Wondering if such a scenario played itself out on cecilia or if they were eradicated for the benefit of the walleye stocking efforts. Choose walleye over pike:dizzy: ?

So I will never keep a northern pike I catch from Bassford for dinner (:sad: yum!) because I must counteract their evil efforts of esox-elimination!

LONG LIVE PIKE!

[buckwhacka]

I have never heard of a lake DEVOID of northern pike. Did the northerns get intentionally eradicated/poisoned/fished-out,etc...?

My father-in-law owns a cottage on Bassford lake (less than a mile form cecilia) and everyone on that (private) lake wants the pike GONE, and they try to get rid of them;) . Wondering if such a scenario played itself out on cecilia or if they were eradicated for the benefit of the walleye stocking efforts. Choose walleye over pike:dizzy: ?

So I will never keep a northern pike I catch from Bassford for dinner (:sad: yum!) because I must counteract their evil efforts of esox-elimination!

LONG LIVE PIKE!no but i fish that lake loyally in the summer because we have a place on it and i have never caught a pike or even heard of anyone getting pike out of that lake.

[SR-Mechead]

Since I have lived up here and got to know a few sportsman I have found out that there is a lot of lakes that will surprise you and Cecelia is one of them.