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Target locations by types of fish:
- Tiger Muskie
  - Round Lake
  - Cossayuna Lake
- Northern Pike
  - Great Sacandaga Lake (bass/walleye, 1 meal per month)
  - Saratoga Lake
  - Round Lake
  - Cossayuna Lake
  - (Ballston Lake)
- Rainbow Trout
  - Grafton Lakes
    - Second Pond (12" trout [3] year round)
    - Shaver Pond (12" trout [3] year round)
    - Long Pond (12" trout [3] year round)
  - Thompsons Lake - 12" Trout Year-Round
  - Glass Lake (kokanee any size [10] and 12" trout [3] year round)
- Walleye
  - Basic Creek Reservoir
  - Burden Lake (Special Walleye Season)
  - Snyders Lake
  - Dunham Reservoir (Special Walleye Season)
  - Dyken Pond (Largemouth bass - 1 meal/month)
  - Tomhannock Reservoir
  - Saratoga Lake
  - Great Sacandaga Lake (bass/walleye, 1 meal per month)
  - Cossayuna Lake
  - Ballston Lake
- Smallmouth Bass
  - Long Pond
- American Eel:
  - Watervliet Reservoir
Keepers:
- Ocean:
  - Striped Bass (IBSP)
  - Striped Bass (Troy Dam Hudson)
  - Bluefish (Atlantic Beach Pier NC)
  - Flounder (Okacroke, Knotts Island)
  - Blue Crab (Knotts Island)
  - Herring (baitfish) - Hudson
- Fresh:
  - Catfish (Hudson)
  - Pickerel (Crooked Lake)
  - Large Mouth Bass (Glass Lake, Ballston Lake)
  - Brown Trout (Wynantskill, Battenkill)
  - Brook Trout (St. Regis Canoe area - Fish Pond, Nellie Pond)
  - Tiger Trout (Wynantskill)
  - Perch (Ballston Lake - big ones, Long Pond, Middle Pond, Electric Lake)
  - Sunfish (Ballston Lake)
  - Crappie - Middle of Electric Lake and from shore, (evening,spring), Ballston Lake (huge, winter), Crooked Lake (Nice size, early Fall)
  - Bullhead
Never caught (not recently, anyway, or at least didn't keep):
- Ocean
  - Sea Robin
  - Weakfish
  - Spanish Mackerel
  - Black Drum
  - Red Drum
  - Catfish
  - Tautog
  - Black Sea Bass
- Fresh Water
  - Northern Pike
    - Cassayuna Lake
    - Great Sacandaga Lake
    - Saratoga Lake
    - Ballston Lake
    - Round Lake
    - Best: Southbay on Lake Champlain, Good: Saratoga Lake, Lake Lonely, (Lake Kiwassa), ok: Round Lake, Less good: Ballston Lake (rare)
    - "good pike fishing can be found in Saratoga Lake and Round Lake"
    - Ballston Lake - "Mice and Frogs work real well in the lilly pads, the only problem is that the fish seem like their on roids when they drag you under the pads. Black and Red spinners and buzzbaits work real well for me and my father had a sure 40 inch pike snatch his chatterbait... The pike really seem to like the entrance to the second narrow, and the LMB really like the lilly pads in the first and second narrow."
    - The most popular lures for Pike are the "red & silver" and the yellow "five-of-diamonds" DareDevils. Pike also hit jigs, Rapalas and Thundersticks. Some of the biggest pike are caught with small jigs while Walleye fishing.
    - 3- to 4-inch-long wide-bodied spoons exhibit a slow lazy-like wobble that will often interest pike that are in a moderate to aggressive mood... When using spoons in the spring, cast them into the shallows, retrieving them slowly with an occasional pause-pop-flutter action to trigger any following pike... Straight-shaft-spinners -- such as the Panther Martin, Blue Fox or Mepps -- are also good lures for trophy northerns. The spinning action of these lures causes a slight lifting action, which permits a slower retrieve and often an enticing action.
    - Good picture of where to find Pike
  - Rainbow Trout
    - Kayaderosseras, Milton (Starts @ Saratoga Lake)
      - Fishing prohibited during certain parts of the year below the train tracks. Trout season is open year round upstream of the tracks.
      - Map of Canoe Launch Points
      - Distances by my measure (from Kelly Park):
        To Northline: 2.2m
        To Driscoll: 5.4m
        To Arrowhead: 10m
        To Saratoga Lake: 11m
      - http://www.saratogaplan.org/trail_kayaderosseras.html
      - http://www.saratoga.com/adventures/2008/10/kayaderosseras-creek.html
      - Traveling east from Kelly Park in Ballston Spa, the Kayaderosseras winds its way into Saratoga Lake. The route provides easy access to Saratoga Lake, Fish Creek, and Lake Lonely for extending paddling trips.
      - the creek possesses several popular fishing spots, especially in Rock City Falls, Milton Center, and Craneville.
      - Kelly Park - parking area, canoe launch, large area along creek to fish: 48 Ralph St Ballston Spa, NY 12020
      - Cleanup Detail - http://kayaderosseras.org/
  - Lake Trout
  - Walleye Pike
    - Cossayuna Lake
    - Scoharie Reservoir
    - Basic Creek Reservoir
    - Saratoga Lake
    - Kayaderosseras Creek
    - Burden Lake
    - Snyder's Lake
    - Ballston Lake
    - Great Sacandaga Lake
  - Lake Whitefish
    - West Caroga Lake
  - Tiger Muskellunge
    - Cassayuna Lake
    - Round Lake
  - Salmon
    - West Caroga Lake (Atlantic Salmon)
    - Glass Lake (Kokanee Salmon)
  - Lake Whitefish
    - West Caroga Lake
  - Rainbow Smelt
    - West Caroga Lake
  - Splake
    - West Caroga Lake
  - Small Mouth Bass (Hoosic, Saratoga Lake, Dunham Reservoir)
  - Carp
  - Splake