SGC Maps™ is an innovative book of maps intended as an on-stream reference guide for stream anglers that details a specific stream in an easy to read and use format. Unlike any other stream map or guide, SGC Maps offer the most comprehensive stream information, including the following:

• Stream divided into multiple logical sections
• Detailed map for each logical stream section
• Map Locator
• Location of primary fishing stretches
• GPS waypoints of primary stretches
• Substrate, distance and time indicators for each logical section
• Stream summary (in text format) for each logical section
• Quick Stats Chart
• Streets and access points
• Fishing tips and techniques
• State road map(s)
• Contact information for local tackle and fly shops, dining, and lodging

In addition, SGC Maps provide Intelligent Fishing tools to facilitate planning, execution and recording to improve fishing success, including the following:

• Trip Planner
• Stream Fishing Log
• Stream Fishing Journal
• Fishing Trip Readiness Checklist
• Steelheader’s Contacts list

Each book of maps in the Steelhead Alley Series™ focuses on one tributary of Lake Erie’s south shore from Ohio to New York known to have an outstanding steelhead fishery.

Steelhead Alley Series™ book of maps are currently available as a CD version (.pdf format) at local tackle and fly shops. Click here for a dealer listing. Maps are also available as a download version available at www.sgcmaps.com. The download version will be downloaded to your computer and will be available to you for your immediate use once purchased. In the future, the book of maps will also be offered as a printed version available at local tackle and fly shops, and from this website.

The Intelligent Fishing Approach using SGC Maps

The first step and foundation of Intelligent Fishing using SGC Maps is planning. Professional fishing guides are consistently more successful than the average fisher, because they spend time planning hours before actually getting in the water –their livelihood depends on it. Using the detailed planning information that SGC Maps provide you will allow you to make more informed decisions and subsequently improve your fishing success.

To facilitate in the planning step, SGC Maps provide a Quick Stats Chart that includes the following detailed information about each logical stream section: zone, number of productive fishing stretches (POI); number of canoe accesses; wade difficulty; amount of gravel fishing areas and public accesses; and, approximate distance and time needed to fish section. SGC Maps also provide a Map Locator, Stream Summary by Section and an Ohio Road Map to help you with the planning step.

Now that you have completed the planning step, the time has come to get on the water and execute the plan. To facilitate in the execution step, SGC Maps provides detailed stream information at your fingertips that describes and illustrates what’s around the next bend. Think of SGC Maps as a pseudo river fishing guide that accompanies you as you wade or float down an unfamiliar stream or stream stretch providing the information that will reduce your learning curve and improve fishing success. The on-stream reference information provided within SGC Maps includes location of primary fishing stretches, GPS waypoints of primary stretches, approximate distances between each POI (point-of-interest), substrate characteristics, streets and access points, and much more fishing-related details.

Although a GPS unit is not required to utilize SGC Maps, it will allow you find the exact location of the POI (point-of-interest) illustrated on the SGC Map. In most cases, SGC Maps provide enough detail to allow you to find the relative location of the POI, including distance to reach POI, landmarks, feeder streams and cliff areas.

The last step, but not any less important than the previous two steps, is to record (in an organized manner) the results of your executed plan. More specifically, record the equipment and presentations used during the execution step, weather and water conditions, newly discovered productive stream stretches, and other related information. The main reason for recording is that this activity will provide you with valuable information during the planning step of future fishing trips, and provide you with memorable accounts of past fishing experiences. The goal is to collect enough information where patterns become evident and then you can match current conditions with established patterns. Although this process is not entirely fail-safe, you will improve your odds of being successful.

To facilitate in the recording step, SGC Maps provide a Stream Fishing Log and Stream Fishing Journal. The Stream Fishing Log provides a place for you to log GPS coordinates and descriptions of your own discovered productive stream stretches found within a given logical section of an SGC Map. And the Stream Fishing Journal provides a place for you to record weather and water conditions, equipment and presentations used, descriptions of steelhead caught, and allows you to specify the SGC Map and point-of-interest (POI) that this information relates to.

By utilizing the Intelligent Fishing tools provided within each SGC Map, you will improve your fishing success!