Lake Wentworth Association

We are in the penultimate stage of trying to get SB224 passed. This is the bill to get lead out of fishing gear that kills loons. Continue reading →

Back in March, there was a week of warm weather. It was time for Spring skiing and enjoying the warm sun. Since then, that warm weather has been “arrested”.

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New Hampshire Lakes Association won a $4000 grant for Lakes Host Brochures. Everyone who voted to help in the process is thanked.

New Hampshire didn’t live up to its reputation for having a “good” winter. It never got going this year and the lake is set to go out very early. Weather in the 80′s doesn’t help the ice…..  The lake froze later than usual and only a few ice houses were every put out and most didn’t stay long because by the time that the ice was hard enough to put them out, the warming temperatures said you need to take them off. There were a number of good ice boating days and I was tempted to buy one but had I done it the day I was tempted, my season would have ended five days later. The amount of snow on the ground has been limited so the run-off has also been limited and unless there is rain in April and May, we may have a lake that is lower than normal. State regulations say that the level has to be reduced for the Winter months but the run-off isn’t raising the level for the summer levels yet.

As we move, now, to the Spring and Summer seasons, we need to think about what we can do for our lake to keep it the way we like it. I got a fun video that you may have looked at about a goose talking about what he/she likes in lake frontage. If you haven’t looked at it, you might enjoy it. The link is:  http://greatlakesecho.org/2012/01/16/video-this-talking-goose-loves-a-mowed-lawn/

The water is still cold, only the brave would go swimming but all that will change. The Sun is feeling warm, ducks are back on the lake (but no loons as of yet) and the redwings are singing in the swamps, the peepers are peeping and a phoebe was catching bugs off our shore. We do hope that the warm temperatures don’t confuse the apple trees and get them blossoming and then freeze them. There are actually bugs out now including mosquitoes. Maybe a light, frost will get rid of them.

Winter has come, finally, although not the traditional kind. There isn’t much snow and it hasn’t been all that cold. However, ice has formed on the lake and people are ice fishing, snowmobiling, ice boating and just walking around on the lake. As you wander around the lake, there are ice formations that are pretty neat and ice formations that make you be careful. Continue reading →

Well, it is past St. Patrick’s Day so it is not green beer. It must be phosphorous. An experiment was done for a school science project to look at how phosphorous affects algae growth.  It was simple but it shows the real problem with how phosphorous can affect our lake. Continue reading →

Finally, it is freezing, the lake I mean. It is late and as of 1/5/12 it is not all frozen but maybe 95%. The freeze started as it normally does with the lake skimming over and the wind blowing the ice cubes up on shore.  It froze completely by the 8th although it is not frozen enough to walk or ski on. There were people ice fishing on Crescent Lake on the 8th but it is much shallower. Near the Smith River, it was not frozen because of the current.

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