thats where I live and your not kidding. I have been fishing there for years, however you need a boat to really hit them. I know that lake like the back of my hand.
I caught a 25" bass one year, was 8lb’s. I had it in the freezer and when I took it out to get it mounted, it had freezer burn and was beginning to rot! I was SOOO pissed.
not sure if you remember but it was in the paper a few years ago. A local private small plane owner lives on the other side of round lake and always flys his little planes over the lake real low, well a few years ago he saw this big white thing floating in the water…so he turned around and landed on the water (he has those water landing planes) and it was a 13lb dead bass. They believed he died just from old age. There was a huge article on it in the paper.
also, round lake holds the record for tiger muskies…try catching one of those fuckers. I have yet to catch a big one out of there but my taxidermist who mounted my 41" lake trout has a 50" tiger muskie he cought out of round lake one year on a white spinner bait…and he was in a canoe and he said the fish pulled him around the lake twice before he just ended up floating belly up from exhaustion…
they stock it every year with muskies too.
my uncle is a pro bass fisherman and he said round lake has some of the biggest fish in NY state…its just slow fishing but when you get a fish, its big.
ballston lake has some nasty bass as well.