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New York => Ice Fishing New York => Topic started by: new-icer on Dec 09, 2006, 03:53 AM
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Has anyone ever heard of Desolation Lake? It is near Saratoga. My buddy's girl live up there and he said he got permission to fish it. Hen said it's a private lake and has some big perch in it. If you have any info - fish type, depth, size of the lake please let me know. Don't know if I want to make the drive from Cortland if it is not worth it. Thank You
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I have ridden my mountain bike up in that area many times but to be honest I have never ice fished it before. I do know that is it a shallow lake, 10-15 fow, and that it has bass, panfish and pickerel. I really would not bother making the trip to ice fish there. There are so many other lakes I would fish over desolation. I would make the trip if you had a housing. You could easily drive a few short miles over to The Great Sacandaga. That might be worth the trip. Hope that helps.
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I believe there are some decent sized crappie in Desolation. From what I know ya have to hit it at early ice and work it very hard
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the 2 times I've ice fished the lake, I was skunked both times. :-\
It normally is the 1st to freeze but I've not been out looking for ice yet.
Next weekend will be a different story, I'll be searching, then. ;D
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Lake Desolation is not a private lake. you can access it from a small beach across from the bar/restaurant as you get up to the lake. I belive this a town beach. It is relatively small and most of all SHALLOW... 15' being about the deepest. It does have a lot of shallow weedbeds and inlets. Never heard of much going on fishing wise for this lake however. Either on the ice or open water. I would say your better off going to Saratoga lake which is about 15-20 minutes from Lake Desolation. The only thing going for lake Desolation is its higher altitude and tendency to freeze up and stay frozen. But ice does not mean fish.