Great sacandaga is finally frozen!

[fullThrottle]

Yeah I spend a lot of weekends on sand island and I'll fish off my dinghy In morning and I catch a bunch of smallies off the sand bar drops , something to do in the morning if I'm not too hung over ha ha

[SSmokinn SS]

People actually fish sand island?

too many other quality area's to waste time there.

[fullThrottle]

People fish around it near the rocks

[lowaccord66]

People actually fish sand island?

too many other quality area's to waste time there.

That's one man's opinion. I've fished that area and done well too granted I've open water fished it 4 times.  A narrow mind in regards to spots is a great way to catch less fish.

[SSmokinn SS]

That's one man's opinion. I've fished that area and done well too granted I've open water fished it 4 times.  A narrow mind in regards to spots is a great way to catch less fish.

a narrow mind on sacandaga for smallies, isn't that much of a narrow mind. You can literally go anywhere in that lake and catch 1.5-2lbers...for those numbers, I prefer to head to the clump of islands going towards northville....for quality, I stay at the bach. bridge, and farther to the town of day.

I don't look for numbers. I look for quality...the catch with that is, you DO catch less fish....because numbers aren't where the big ones are 

[fullThrottle]

I've caught big ones in back bays behind the island on rocks , I'd rather catch 20 fish mixed than 2 or 3 big ones

[SSmokinn SS]

I've caught big ones in back bays behind the island on rocks , I'd rather catch 20 fish mixed than 2 or 3 big ones

define "big ones" for sacandaga?

[fullThrottle]

define "big ones" for sacandaga?

Ones that are larger in size than the smaller ones

[SSmokinn SS]

Ones that are larger in size than the smaller ones

 

[fullThrottle]

I'm going up tomorrow. Hopefully I land on some fish. I got a 3 foot pike 3 weeks ago on my first line down and nothing the rest of the day ha ha well hooked a an eye but it came off

[ADKTroutScout]

tons of smallies in that lake. fishing is was decent close to bridge

[fullThrottle]

Batchellerville Bridge Or northville

[SSmokinn SS]

Batchellerville Bridge Or northville

Both is good.

fish are bigger at batch. bridge.

[piscesman]

One thing you have to understand is this is a reservoir!!!!!! Not a lake. That's why day to day fishing is different due to the constant changing water level. The main channel people refer to is very tricky to follow but takes years of practice to learn since at one time it was a river. Topo maps give a reasonably
 close detail to the contour of the bottom. You have at certain spots a 40' drop off or a very little drop off. Only years of practice in the open water will help you these  "honeyholes" depending on the season. That's a main reason why people will give general directions to various spots to locate fish. Good Luck................
      Kim

[hunts2long]

What show was that? Would like to take a look at it...h2l

[hunts2long]

SS, I see you removed your post about the fishing show on CBS and WFN...h2l

[SSmokinn SS]

Sending you a PM.... no point in bringing it up on here...that's why it was removed.

[Justice Fishnett]

Heading to the GSL for the first time tomorrow morning and was wondering if Lanzi's allowed parking access to go out on the lake? Or is there any other parking access spot on the west side of the lake? A friend of mine said to go out from Wally's but I don't know about that, it looks like a walk to the lake from there. Thanks for any info and tight lines!

[adkRoy]

Heading to the GSL for the first time tomorrow morning and was wondering if Lanzi's allowed parking access to go out on the lake? Or is there any other parking access spot on the west side of the lake? A friend of mine said to go out from Wally's but I don't know about that, it looks like a walk to the lake from there. Thanks for any info and tight lines!

Lanzi's has a huge plowed out parking area for snowmobiliers and fisherman. you should be good to go.

[octanehi5]

we found over a foot of ice coming out of the camp ground across to the east side

[fullThrottle]

Went off the broadalbin boat launch today. One foot plus ice all over

[Loudmouth879]

Went off the broadalbin boat launch today. One foot plus ice all over

how'd you make out? Any fish?

[OneidaAngler]

Would like to give Great Sacandaga a try tomorrow. Would like to get after some walleye. Anybody willing to show me the ropes or point me towards the better access sites? I'm coming from Cobleskill and am quite a ways from my stomping grounds. Any info would be highly appreciated.

[fullThrottle]

I got skunked yesterday . Talked to a group of guys with 30 some flags out. They only got 2 fish all day from 5 am -4pm

[paulieg]

We had a tough day out there yesterday as well a few jumbo perch but that was it  plenty of ice 12 plus out of the campground

[OneidaAngler]

Fished today. 2 keeper eyes and dumped another one at the hole. Also iced a northern just shy of 40 inches. Not too bad for my first time on the lake without any "local" knowledge. Walleye were pretty thin.

[Justice Fishnett]

Fished the GSL for the first time on Saturday. Got there early in the morning and I was really slow to start but as the day wore on it got more productive and we caught 3 walleye, two perch and one smallmouth between the 3 of us. Not bad for our first time there and were happy enough with the outcome. Might give it another try this weekend.

[Goose97]

Landed two nice pike Saturday at lunch time,one 30" and the other almost 3 foot,unfortunately no eyes that day,Sunday had 5 flags in 15 minutes at dusk,only landed one walleye.seemed like they were just not aggressive,last time we had action like that and they all swallowed it.

[snelly]

seems like more pike this year. caught and released one 40" day of the walleye challenge. last saturday one 34" and a keeper eye and one small pike thrown back. probabally caught. 10 pike so far this year. not many legal walleyes

[hunts2long]

This post gets pretty quiet when there is ice and some fishing...h2l