Good stuff Sim. The best stuff I know of I've found myself, period. GPS is
an incredibleaid to the guy that'll take the time to actually drive his boat
over the lakebottom & pay attention to what he sees. I've never won a
tournament on something that I've seen on a mass-produced contour map,
though I have certainly used them to guide me to some honey holes. The best
stuff are things like rockpiles the size of a car, a sudden break in a
weedline, an uncharted hump, etc... The problem is few guys want to put
their rods down long enough to find these places.

That's especially good for guys like me ;-)

Warren

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Hot Spot maps are okay but the thing to remember is that is everybody
has that information the chances that they are not over fished is slim.
As always to have the best spots takes some personal exploration. The
environment changes as well so what was hot one year may not be the
next. That is where your GPS comes in. I have spots marked where I have
caught fish and returning to those waypoints has been productive. I also
mark holes and cuts at low tide in the flats for later opportunities.


I am pretty sure that Fishing Hot Spots is simply the brand name of the
map
company that puts them out. I have several "Hot Spots" maps of local lakes
and it shows a good map of the lake, any underwater features that are
known
about, and that's it. They don't list actual "fishing" hot spots to my
knowledge.

The best maps of my local lakes that I have are aerial photo maps. The
photos were taken from high alitutude planes, after the timbering, prior
to
the lakes' initial floodings. Works great, shows the actual road beads,
railroad beds, holes, places where grass/weeds did grow, where they didn't
grow, and so on.

Any of these maps work in conjunction with a GPS unit, especially when one
uses waypoints to find their way back to their own personal hot spots.