Name:   Lifer - Subject:   Locals lake map Date:   12/31/2014 9:59:58 AM

I wish I could give you more info on maps but unfortunately I don't have any info on any of them.  I can tell you that I have never bought any "special" map of the lake.  I have just bought them at local shops and marinas through the years.  The couple I do have still are currently stored on the boats in a barn at the farm under three layers of cover or I would get one and find out the publishers info.  Although I couldn't reall say how historically accurate they are at this point.  All of the "older" versions I've had have been mostly given away or left on old watercraft when sold.  It has been a long time since I needed one so I haven't really taken a close look at one lately.  I only keep them on the boats to show visitors an overview of the lake and point out what areas I may have taken them too on a given trip.  Even those incidents is more about what they didn't see as opposed to what they did.  It always astounds folks that see how large the lake really is.  Of course I am sure that in 40-50 years the names will have changed even more as the lake evolves.

Best advice is to buy a map at your local conveneince store and study it, ask any neighbors or locals if they have older maps that you could look at for comparison, and last but not least, ride the shorelines.  While in different areas stop and talk to folks you see on their peirs or in their yards and ask them how they refer to the area, how long they have been here etc. etc.  I am sure that you will find 99% of them more than willing to share what they know.  Through the years I have talked with scores of "looky-loos" that come through on weekends, and sometimes I am the looky-loo who stops at others places to ask questions.  Of course the most effecient way is to take an old timer like me along on a few boat rides and before long you will be an old timer too.