Great Sacandaga Lake Nav maps

[ROCbass]

Does anyone know where I can get some good navigation maps for this lake? My grandparents live on this lake and I usually go up at least once a year. I already know a few spots, but would like to find some others. Up there I fish out of v hull with no electronics so a good map would be very helpful. I am planning on going up in a couple weeks while I am on spring break and would like to be able to go for a walk on the ice and mark structure that I find that is normally covered during spring and summer when the water is higher.

[ROCbass]

anyone?

[J Francho]

Sportsman's Connection has a map of it.  I checked my copies, but unfortunately, I don't have the CSE Adirondacks volume.  Here is a link, though I think you can find them at Dick's or Gander for a little less.

http://www.sportsmansconnection.com/newyork/fishingbooks/cseadiron/

[ROCbass]

Thanks. I just got back from there this weekend, The ice was starting to break up and was too dangerous to walk on so I couldn't explore the lake bottom as much as I would have liked. I will have to look into those Sportsman's Connection books. I have actually thought about getting one in the past, but it seems expensive considering the only lake I fish in the CSE Adirondacks volume is Great Sacandaga, and usually only 1-2 times a year. How helpful are the volumes you do have?

[J Francho]

Go for the download then, only $4!

http://www.sportsmansconnection.com/downloads/newyork/downloadinfo/11769-Sacandaga,_Great/

[J Francho]

How helpful are the volumes you do have?

Woops, missed this.

The Western NY guide is VERY helpful, though lacks details in some areas. No Port Bay detail?  Maybe that's a good thing.  Hotspots Maps make up the balance, there.

I also bought the Northern NY version, but only for fishing Upper Saranac, LOL. It really was too much coin for one lake, once a year.

The text and so called "spots" are useless. Like I couldn't figure out that the one point on the lake would be a "spot."

Depths are close enough, though its the mental image of the lake that you want. The maps give you a place to plan your 1st attack. after you've fished, you can use the maps to keep track of what you did there. I also drop my waypoints in, as best as possible, just in case I lose them.

[ROCbass]

Thanks a lot. I downloaded the Great Sacandaga map, it looks like it should be helpful for planning, keeping track of what I do, and entering rough waypoints like you said, which is also what I wanted it for. I noticed one pretty significant inaccuracy in the map of the surrounding area, but I don't need it to find my way around town so as long as the actual lake is correct it should be fine. I just hope the mistake was an anomaly and not indicative of the overall quality of the map of the actual lake, lol.

[J Francho]

If it was an access road, yeah that can be sketchy.  Cartography is an evergreen process, and things change quite a bit.  Even lake bottom contours can change more than you'd think.  There are structure markings all over the Lake Ontario shoreline on just about every map I've seen, and I just laugh.  NONE can be trusted.  It only takes on good storm to totally change the bottom.  The map is just a starting point.