I'm heading out to the Albany area this weekend to visit with a cousin and we are planning to do some fishing. He has only been on the hard water once on a prior visit where we visited Nassau Lake (they got a membership just for ice fishing). Didn't have a shanty, didn't have the right gear and it was windy as hell....not a great experience.
I'm much better equipped this time around and plan on making a better day of it.
the question now is where to drop a line that is reasonably close to East Schodak? It's quite a trek to just get there and I'd like to maximize time on the ice rather than driving all over the place.
Burden Lake looks good but looking at the maps I don't see where the access is on 2nd Dyke road.
There are a ton of small ponds / lakes in the area from Snyders lake in an arc over towards pikes pond...I just don't know which ones to even try and research.
If you were going to be in Rensselaer County for a day of fishing and the goal was just just catch something while out for a couple of hours where would you target? Dinks all day would be better than a keeper as we are just looking to go out and catch something.
Grafton Lakes look awesome but they are just going to be too far from our base of operations
Looking at all of the small water in this area is overwhelming...you guys are pretty lucky to have so much variety so close by.
Dinks_All_Day would be an awesome IS handle...