Freedom to fish whenever and wherever 2024
Ratherbfishing reply :
It really is just a pipe dream of mine (obviously, since I'm not made of money) but have you ever wished you could simply hook up your boat, get in your truck (or SUV) and just travel and fish extensively whenever and wherever you wanted? I've often studied at an atlas and thought how neat it would be to begin in the "winter" by fishing all the southern states and work my way north across the continent. Have you ever known anyone who did anything LIKE this?
EGbassing reply :
Yep. A while ago I started in the south and fished at least one lake in each state; caught my PB largemouth, a 10 lb smallmouth, several muskie, and then woke up.
Scott F reply :
I've been wanting to do something like that for several years. I just wanted to do it fishing rivers for smallmouth. Now that I'm retired, I could do it, but I don't think it would be much fun to do it alone and I haven't found anyone who'd like to do it with me.
BassWhole! reply :
I've been fortunate to fish in many countries in 6 continents for all sorts of things with fins and gills. I'd have to check my math, but I want to say I've fished in maybe 15 or so states.
Dens228 reply :
I can't fish wherever I want, but being semi-retired and having four months off in the summer I do have a lot of opportunity to fish..........currently in a kayak for the most part but eyeing a bass boat to expand my horizons.
Oregon Native reply :
After the kids had grown I fished a lot.....was fortunate threw the state federation and BASS Nationals to go to many states. Fished all ten of the west's Federation states and five of the National destinations and now I've lived in Tennessee for ten years and have been blessed traveling around here. It has been a great ride with many dips and mountains. Met a lot of interesting people too. Probably wound't have done it without BASS or the FLW. Last but not least my great wife and family and the Good Lords blessings.
Gundog reply :
Its a dream of mine to do exactly what @Ratherbfishing is talking about. But its a dream. The reality is I have to have a job to fund anything I do. Also I'm not as young as I use to be so living out of a truck, motel rooms, campgrounds is not as much fun as it use to sound.
Catt reply :
Been blessed enough to have bass fished from Brownsville Texas to Central Florida & from the Gulf of Mexico to Ohio.
Still have a few ponds I'd like to try ????
Mobasser reply :
The one thing for me, at some point in my life would be to make a serious smallmouth bass trip. I've only caught one smallmouth in my life, and have always fished for largemouth bass.Smallmouth are not in the lakes I fish locally. Hope to do this someday
Harold Scoggins reply :
I want to fish Mexico, but knowing my luck, I'd have a run-in with the cartel trying to take my new PB.
TnRiver46 reply :
On 12/1/2018 at 5:14 AM, Scott F said:I've been wanting to do something like that for several years. I just wanted to do it fishing rivers for smallmouth. Now that I'm retired, I could do it, but I don't think it would be much fun to do it alone and I haven't found anyone who'd like to do it with me.
I’ll go! But seriously I have tossed This idea around in my head for years. Get a group of people and just canoe and camp down all the smallmouth rivers in the US. Video the entire trip and somehow make money off it .
LCG reply :
On 12/1/2018 at 7:56 PM, Mobasser said:The one thing for me, at some point in my life would be to make a serious smallmouth bass trip. I've only caught one smallmouth in my life, and have always fished for largemouth bass.Smallmouth are not in the lakes I fish locally. Hope to do this someday
Smallmouth are probably the most fun to play with. Great fighters. I am fortunate in that I am in Ontario Canada, our lakes are full or them, commonly in the 5-8lb range. So much fun.
CroakHunter reply :
I'd love to start at Kentucky Lake and fish all the Tennessee River lakes.
slonezp reply :
Used to do an annual trip in late March early April. I have fished a number of the "big name" bass lakes. Unfortunately, time constraints and mother nature can make or break that trip of a lifetime. Fishing and traveling are a lot of work. When I'm on vacation, I want to be on vacation. Maybe once I'm retired and time no longer means anything I would be up for it.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I'd love to be able to. I'm hoping once my boys are older, they'll be into fishing and want to go on fishing trips with me.
Oregon Native reply :
One of the neatest camp/bass fishing trips I had was waking up in the morning in the campground at lake Orville California and having a deer looking in my van window!!!! Sheesh. Then in same campground was washing my face over the sink and saw movement just in front of me......jumped back and looked and here comes a little frog out of the overflow on the sink....little @#!$ startled me good. Oh....same restroom had a bat too over the shower....this place had it all....plus good fishing.
Alec McMillan reply :
Once I'm older I'd like to start at Okeechobee and make my ways north and finish with smallmouth in Mille Lacs. Then do the same thing for the other side of the country.
Swbass15 reply :
My dream would be a multi day saltwater trip. To Australia fishing for marlin and whatever else is biting. I’ve been lucky to fish across the us on family trips and during work. So I want to do something exotic. My wife and I are trying to plan a 10 year anniversary to South America on the coast packed with snook, tarpon, red fish and whatever else may give the line a tug.
A-Jay reply :
On 12/2/2018 at 6:03 AM, slonezp said:Used to do an annual trip in late March early April. I have fished a number of the "big name" bass lakes. Unfortunately, time constraints and mother nature can make or break that trip of a lifetime. Fishing and traveling are a lot of work. When I'm on vacation, I want to be on vacation. Maybe once I'm retired and time no longer means anything I would be up for it.
Interesting perspective ~
I believe that once you do get there - that may change quite a bit.
"The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time"
A-Jay
WRB reply :
Made my 1st coast to coast cross country fishing trip the summer of '61 before strarting college. 1st long range ocean charter trip from San Diego to Baja' Gaudalupe island in '65 after college before starting my aerospace engineering career. Back packing the High Sierra for Golden trout to off shore marlin and tuna, fishing the California coast to Cabo San Lucas for 35 years. My career allowed to to travel to nearly every state and bass fished most of them. '71 was my 1st bass fishing trip to lake Guerrero Mexico main land. '72 my 1st trip to Canada to meet my new inlaws and fish for walleye, northern pike, lake trout, bass and muskies. My father in law had a float plane so we fished a lot of remote wilderness lakes in Canada.
You can reach your dreams and attain your goals if you take it a trip at a time spread over a lifetime.
Owned several boats over the years, never owned a motor home or truck with camper, rather tent camp or stay in a resort.
Tom
slonezp reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 12:48 AM, A-Jay said:Interesting perspective ~
I believe that once you do get there - that may change quite a bit.
"The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time"
A-Jay
Time without constraints is what I was trying to convey. When I have a week of vacation and spend half of that time driving to go fish, it takes some of the enjoyment out of it, add the weather fluctuations in early spring and a fishing vacation becomes a crap shoot. When I contacted you last fall about my dad and I doing a smallmouth tour of Michigan, I was planning a 2 week stint fishing Erie, St Clair, Traverse Bay, and Menderchuck. I switched jobs and plans changed. 2 weeks is a lot of time to include a fudge factor for weather and other bumps in the road.
Currently, only being able to take a week at a time, I want to make the most of it. Keep driving to no more than a day and the ability to change plans on a moments notice due to mother nature.
12poundbass reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 2:40 AM, slonezp said:When I contacted you last fall about my dad and I doing a smallmouth tour of Michigan, I was planning a 2 week stint fishing Erie, St Clair, Traverse Bay, and Menderchuck.
@A-Jay told you where Lake Menderchuck is and you're still alive? Unbelievable! The only logical explanation for that is the directions he gave you put you in the middle of a landfill or the National Guard base up there! ????
jbmaine reply :
I have the time, but not the health or $$$ to travel where ever, but if I did. I would fly fish for trout in all the amazing places I've heard about.
Spring creeks out west, Alaska, Minipi region in Labrador, Patagonia, New Zealand.
TnRiver46 reply :
On 12/1/2018 at 9:21 PM, CroakHunter said:I'd love to start at Kentucky Lake and fish all the Tennessee River lakes.
A guy recently paddled it in a canoe traveling upriver starting at the confluence with the Ohio . He had a dog with him too! I think it’s like 650 miles, I’m guessing he went upstream because the wind typically blows upstream. But the current can be crazy too!
slonezp reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 5:05 AM, 12poundbass said:@A-Jay told you where Lake Menderchuck is and you're still alive? Unbelievable! The only logical explanation for that is the directions he gave you put you in the middle of a landfill or the National Guard base up there! ????
We were to meet under the darkness of night an hour from the ramp. My father and I were to don burlap sacks over our heads while A-Jay drove us to the ramp. We were to fish until dark and repeat the process in reverse. Unfortunately, this series of events never transpired and I went to Sturgeon Bay instead.
Arcs&sparks reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 6:16 AM, jbmaine said:Minipi region
????????
12poundbass reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 8:59 AM, slonezp said:We were to meet under the darkness of night an hour from the ramp. My father and I were to don burlap sacks over our heads while A-Jay drove us to the ramp. We were to fish until dark and repeat the process in reverse. Unfortunately, this series of events never transpired and I went to Sturgeon Bay instead.
Ahhh that makes perfect sense. I knew something wasn't quite adding up, and there had to be a detail missing. ????
GrumpyOlPhartte reply :
At my age such a trip would revolve around where the “roadside rests” are located along the highway!! I may have set the bar too low, but I now enjoy just using a kayak to explore local lakes (and there are a number of small lakes and ponds around here) that I could never thoroughly enjoy when limited to bank fishing. Every bass from a heretofore unknown location is a revelation to me. Still ... when I hit the lottery ...
TOXIC reply :
Great topic!! I'll let you know in June!! That's when I retire and will begin the search for my lake house. My wife wants to continue to work for a few years so I plan to hook up the boat and go to all of the lakes on my possible retirement list. Likewise, I am lucky enough to be in a "group" of fishing friends who enjoy traveling to lakes all over the country to fish. I will say, after my first trip to St Clair in Michigan, that place is special. I've been going back for 16 years. We are looking at possibly having a couple of retirement places since I do not want to deal with winter ever again!! I just love the Northern lakes with their clear water and multiple species......especially Smallmouth. I can do without the winters though. So, my retirement lake may be North but I foresee a condo or something down South for the winters. The fun is going to be in the search!! That's why I am retiring with, hopefully a good chunk of time left to pursue my fishing goals. I can't wait!!
the reel ess reply :
I'd like to catch all the "black bass" species that I can and make a trip to a Mexico trophy bass lake. I've never caught a smallie, trout, pike, muskie or any of the northern species, really. I like to kayak fish and I want to retire early enough to still enjoy it.
TnRiver46 reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 10:04 PM, the reel ess said:I'd like to catch all the "black bass" species that I can and make a trip to a Mexico trophy bass lake. I've never caught a smallie, trout, pike, muskie or any of the northern species, really. I like to kayak fish and I want to retire early enough to still enjoy it.
You can catch all those except Pike about 4 hrs north
the reel ess reply :
On 12/3/2018 at 10:08 PM, TnRiver46 said:You can catch all those except Pike about 4 hrs north
I could probably manage a pickerel around here. We have 2 species in SC, but nowhere that I currently fish that I'm aware of. I can catch smallies about an hour from here in the Broad River basin. And there is a state record for muskie but it was ages ago and in a mountain river. There are trout in the NW corner of the state.
everythingthatswims reply :
On 12/1/2018 at 5:14 AM, Scott F said:I've been wanting to do something like that for several years. I just wanted to do it fishing rivers for smallmouth. Now that I'm retired, I could do it, but I don't think it would be much fun to do it alone and I haven't found anyone who'd like to do it with me.
I'll go, but only on one condition... We long arm the smallmouth in photos
soflabasser reply :
I think anyone who loves bass fishing as much as we do should try to catch as many species of black bass species as they can. So far I have caught the following species of black bass;
1. Florida largemouth bass
2. Northern largemouth bass
3. Smallmouth bass
4. Suwannee bass
5. Bartram's bass
6. Bartram's bass x Alabama spotted bass hybrid
7. Spotted bass
8. Shoal bass
9. Altamaha bass
I plan on catching more species of black bass in my future vacations and hopefully catch other species of fish besides black bass.
Added Altamaha bass. Have caught other species that are also called bass such as striped bass, barred sand bass, calico bass, black Sea bass, and many others.
Elkins45 reply :
I retired last November and thought I would have a lot more time to do stuff like that, but in the year since I retired I have taken only four weeklong trips. Twice to Eufaula, once to Seminole and once to Rodman. I didn’t even get to do much in-State fishing because the weather was either freeezing or boiling almost all year.
I’m hoping maybe next year will be better, but I wanted to go somewhere south this week and now I’m babysitting a sick pet instead. Life gets in the way.
Swbass15 reply :
On 12/4/2018 at 10:30 AM, soflabasser said:I think anyone who loves bass fishing as much as we do should try to catch as many species of black bass species as they can. So far I have caught the following species of black bass;
1. Florida largemouth bass
2. Northern largemouth bass
3. Smallmouth bass
4. Suwannee bass
5. Bartram's bass
6. Bartram's bass x Alabama spotted bass hybrid
7. Spotted bass
8. Shoal bass
I plan on catching more species of black bass in my future vacations and hopefully catch other species of fish besides black bass.
What about the Guadalupe bass?
soflabasser reply :
On 12/4/2018 at 7:28 PM, Swbass15 said:Guadalupe bass
Already did my research on Guadalupe bass and they are one of the easiest black bass species to catch from land. I will be targeting them in a future vacation along with other rare species of redeye bass.
On 12/3/2018 at 10:04 PM, the reel ess said:I've never caught a smallie, trout, pike, muskie or any of the northern species, really.
Have caught smallmouth bass, trout, and Bartam's bass in South Carolina where you live so you do not have to leave your state to catch those species. Have also caught trout, pike, muskie, walleye, and other northern species near the Great Lakes. I strongly reccomend you consider traveling if your goal is to catch these fish. Make sure to do research for a couple months before you travel to make your trip better. Beats going to Disney World or other common tourist destinations.
the reel ess reply :
On 12/5/2018 at 6:11 AM, soflabasser said:Already did my research on Guadalupe bass and they are one of the easiest black bass species to catch from land. I will be targeting them in a future vacation along with other rare species of redeye bass.
Have caught smallmouth bass, trout, and Bartam's bass in South Carolina where you live so you do not have to leave your state to catch those species. Have also caught trout, pike, muskie, walleye, and other northern species near the Great Lakes. I strongly reccomend you consider traveling if your goal is to catch these fish. Make sure to do research for a couple months before you travel to make your trip better. Beats going to Disney World or other common tourist destinations.
There are smallies in the Broad R at least an hour away. I'd have to drive 3 plus hours for the others.
Well, DNR stocks trout in the Lower Saluda below the Lake Murray dam during winter, but most don't make it to the spring. Stripers eat them. That's about an hour away.
soflabasser reply :
I often drive one to three hours to reach my favorite fishing places so only driving 1 hour is not far. The drive will be worth it since it means you might catch fish to add to your bucket list. I caught smallmouth bass in the Broad River watershed and I caught Bartram's bass in the Savannah River watershed.
On 12/5/2018 at 8:28 AM, the reel ess said:There are smallies in the Broad R at least an hour away. I'd have to drive 3 plus hours for the others.
Well, DNR stocks trout in the Lower Saluda below the Lake Murray dam during winter, but most don't make it to the spring. Stripers eat them. That's about an hour away.
TnRiver46 reply :
On 12/5/2018 at 6:11 AM, soflabasser said:Already did my research on Guadalupe bass and they are one of the easiest black bass species to catch from land. I will be targeting them in a future vacation along with other rare species of redeye bass.
Have caught smallmouth bass, trout, and Bartam's bass in South Carolina where you live so you do not have to leave your state to catch those species. Have also caught trout, pike, muskie, walleye, and other northern species near the Great Lakes. I strongly reccomend you consider traveling if your goal is to catch these fish. Make sure to do research for a couple months before you travel to make your trip better. Beats going to Disney World or other common tourist destinations.
I know a spot or 3 where you can catch the redeye bass (micropterus coosae)
CrankFate reply :
On 12/1/2018 at 5:14 AM, Scott F said:I've been wanting to do something like that for several years. I just wanted to do it fishing rivers for smallmouth. Now that I'm retired, I could do it, but I don't think it would be much fun to do it alone and I haven't found anyone who'd like to do it with me.
Everyone loves fishing, until it’s time to actually go.
I hear everyone talking about some big adventure, far away for some giant fish. I have done that a couple times, but I don’t like it. And I couldn’t even think of being on a boat for a few days straight. I’d rather be in some shallow water catching regular fish whenever I want. And whenever I can, that’s what I do.
Oregon Native reply :
Traveling.....fishing....day after day....watching sunrise's on the water....feeling the tug....don't have to be big....love it all.
But I've had to slow down...three or four days in a row is all I seem to get now....wallet has to refill and body has to recharge.....
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