North Dakota Lake Maps

[iffwalleyes]

I stumbled across this a few years ago but with in the last 3 years or so the Game and Fish have really been working at updating there map list and maps for lakes. I have been using these this past winter and they seem to be very accurate. I mainly use them on Jamestown Reservoir it seems pretty close give the variability of the pools elevations since it is a reservoir.

North Dakota Lake Maps

[LMITOUT]

Yes, those are nice maps to have handy. I printed a few of those a couple of years ago and they worked good for ice fishing. Glad to see NDGF work on things like this. Much better than the MN DNR maps which are quite out of date and inaccurate.

[iffwalleyes]

Ya they are working hard on them. I talked to the guy that makes the maps in the summer he goes to the different lakes and he has his boat set up with a sub meter GPS and good recording sonar and goes to work. Then in the winter he makes the maps. I told him I wanted his job sounded like a lot of fun to me. He said he had been doing it the last 3 years.

[LMITOUT]

That would be a fun job to have. I was up at Sakakawea for the Dakota Walleye Classic last year the Navionics crew was stationed near our campsite. We saw them zipping back and forth across the lake all day as they were in that particular area during that week. Might get a little boring after a while though and criss-crossing the lake on rougher days could wear and tear on a guy. Still couldn't complain too much about that job!

[iffwalleyes]

I saw the Navionics crew up at Sakakawea several days when I was up there working. I thought it would just be fun to be in their boats nice looking rigs for sure.

[marine_man]

These maps are a HUGE improvement over the maps they previously had. They have GPS coordinate tick marks on the sides of the maps and are in color, showing a different shade of blue for each depth contour...

They are leaps and bounds ahead of the old maps in regard to detail as well... if a person looks close there aren't a lot of "secret" spots out there anymore... every sunken island, point and bend is shown.

Now if we only had some open water to try them out on...

marine_man

[dan]

talking about showing every hump and dip, i think this is why lake maps of cunuck lakes are impossible to find.

i don't think the ministry of interiors allows it.

is there a new map for Devil's Lake?

[dan]

i just checked out this map, a friend sent this one to me a few weeks ago. it's a cool map, the one i had purchased two years ago comes on two fairly large sheets with approximately 1/4 of devil's lake on each side of the two sheets. i had ordered from an outfit in central ND, sorry can't remember the name. but it is extremely detailed, i use it so much that it's wearing out fast. if anyone knowswhere this map come from, i'll need a new one soon.

thanks - and good luck fishin'

[iffwalleyes]

It might be a Lake Trax Map. These maps are made using the same data as the maps on the links I have posted above. You can do a search and find Lake Trax HSOforum.

[dan]

i'll take a look, thanks

the wife and i will be chasing perch on devil's next weekend, hopefully they are bitin' better by then.

[SDHNTR]

Well, IFFWALLEYES and MARINE MAN i started posting on the Oahe fishing conditions, so you can check it out if you like. Have a good one guys.