Best Chickamauga Lake Fishing Map

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JerDog

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There are lots of maps of Chickamauaga out there. I have been to several of the stores in the area and each is a bit different. Anyone have one they recommend? I would like one that shows underwater countour as well as names of islands, points, and other bodies of water in the area.
 
The very best are the old underwater contour maps from TVA. These were made before the lake was built. Detail is unmatched by any other map you can get.
 
I have 3 different Chick maps, each with it's own good and bad points. I have yet to find the "perfect" lake map, but the TVA maps are great for detail.

The 3 I use are by Fishing Hot Spots, Atlantic Mapping, and Kingfisher Maps.
 
I have three maps also of Chickamauga. All have their plusses and minuses. The Atlantic Mapping map is compact, has the whole lake on front and back, shows some of the stump beds and other spots, and has GPS waypoints approximating some hot spots to fish. The only problem is that you need a microscope to read all the detail. The Navigation maps from TVA are the easiest to figure out the depth quickly as they are colored for different depths and they do show the stump fields. They do not show approximation of creek channels and niether to the Atlantic Mapping maps. The black and white maps of Chickamauga have the most detail but are of course not colorized, they do show the old creek channels, roadbeds and lots of other neat info. They also have almost all of the sloughs labeled with names so when someone says to fish in Hideout slough, you can figure out where that is. The TVA maps are bulky, and are a series, so you have to carry a bunch of maps if you want the whole system to look at and they are paper, so if wet they don't stay nice for long. I usually use my TVA maps at home or have them stowed, use my Atlantic on the boat and mark it up with specifics from the other maps.
 
drumking - 6/12/2007 12:21 PM Polo, have you taken the time to color the B&W maps that you have?
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That is something I have been meaning to do for some time. Unfortunately, I'm usually fishing when I think of it
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. The B&W's make it difficult to determine where dry land is and using color to border them, as well as contour lines, would make reading a bit easier.</p>
 
In the past I sat down and used a red leaded pencil and marked the map along the 20 ft depth line. That has been helpful but it is time consuming and if you have ever tried to do it it is hard to figure out which line is which sometimes. I really think the best things about the B+W's are the springs that are marked and the course of the old creek channels. Those are some of the biggest keys to me finding fish most of the year it seems at least for consistency.
 
Since we are on the subject....would it be the same response for Watts Bar?

I have been gaining a collection of maps...I have the FHS maps which are okay but not as good as the TVA contour maps by Atlantic Mapping. Those are the only other maps I have...and I thought they were the cats meow. I didn't know of the b&w TVA maps.
 

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