Erie for smallies because I have only caught a handful in my life. Mexico for huge largemouth. I'd also love to jump the lakes in Florida and Tennessee.

Louisiana Redfish looks like a blast.

I'll just take a year paid vacation, and fish wherever I feel like.

Why the asterisks?

lol - I didn't do that.  It would seem there is a word censor turned on to disallow that word.  To appease the mods, I wont circumvent with dashes etc, but I was referencing the Black River which feeds the Amazon in Brazil in case the Peacock reference didn't lock it in for anyone.

Fixed it for you - official moderator intervention, lol.

I would like to go north for toothy fish. Like pike in Siberia. 

I live near the Great Lakes and have many opportunities to fish for smallmouth on them but turn them all down. Getting seasick on big water is about as bad as it gets. Try and talk the other 5 guys on the boat who are paying for the charter to turn around and go back to the dock because you are throwing up every 5 minutes. They'd rather just throw you overboard and keep fishing! Better for me to stick to smaller lakes. Keep that in mind if you get the chance to go fish Lake Erie and haven't been on the ocean to know how you'll handle the constant rocking of the boat.

I'd go to Clear Lake for largemouth, Lake Erie for smallmouth, and Bullards Bar for big spots!

Fixed it for you - official moderator intervention, lol.

    Thanks, I didn't want to circumvent anything and get called out for it, lol.

Lake Erie, Champlain or St. Clair for smallmouth.

 

Falcon or Stick Marsh/ Farm 13 for green fish.

 

Same here!

 

Tom

I live near the Great Lakes and have many opportunities to fish for smallmouth on them but turn them all down. Getting seasick on big water is about as bad as it gets. Try and talk the other 5 guys on the boat who are paying for the charter to turn around and go back to the dock because you are throwing up every 5 minutes. They'd rather just throw you overboard and keep fishing! Better for me to stick to smaller lakes. Keep that in mind if you get the chance to go fish Lake Erie and haven't been on the ocean to know how you'll handle the constant rocking of the boat.

 

Dramamine.

lol - I didn't do that. It would seem there is a word censor turned on to disallow that word. To appease the mods, I wont circumvent with dashes etc, but I was referencing the Black River which feeds the Amazon in Brazil in case the Peacock reference didn't lock it in for anyone.

Makes perfect sense now! I thought there may be some super duper secret river that i was missing out on!

If I was going to travel somewhere to fish, it sure as heck wouldn't be for bass! Too many cool species to target

Not a bass, but my dream fishing trip is to target taimen in Mongolia. 

 

I'd also love to fish in Thailand for some toman (giant snakehead.) 

Big O flipping and punching matts.

I live near the Great Lakes and have many opportunities to fish for smallmouth on them but turn them all down. Getting seasick on big water is about as bad as it gets. Try and talk the other 5 guys on the boat who are paying for the charter to turn around and go back to the dock because you are throwing up every 5 minutes. They'd rather just throw you overboard and keep fishing! Better for me to stick to smaller lakes. Keep that in mind if you get the chance to go fish Lake Erie and haven't been on the ocean to know how you'll handle the constant rocking of the boat.

Living right near the Great Lakes most of my life and now by the ocean for the last 10 years, there is a difference in the waves.  The ocean has rolling wider apart waves, the Great lakes are closer together and choppier and just as treacherous.  It's the rocking backing forth that gets people seasick, not under power, my wife gets sick while the boat is still tied up at the dock or while drift fishing.  There are medications, wrist bands and other remedies, don't know if they work or not.

I agree with the Snook.  I personally don't get seasick, but my brother in law and nephew both discovered they did...on a 75 footer headed out for shark.  They had both been on my bass rig during super choppy / rolling small lake waters during a holiday, and didn't bother them.  But before we were even in open water they were both sick on the ocean.  They were lucky in that they didn't get so sick they were purging themselves, but they were both right on the edge.  Needless to say, they didn't enjoy themselves very much - and to top it off, didn't catch any sharks...

Oh boy. The possibilities are endless.....
 

Largemouth: Okeechobee during the spawn, fishing with Scott Martin. (dream on, I know) Besides that, El Salto.

 

Smallmouth: Bays De Noc, where Greg Hackney just won his Angler of the Year title. That place is full of chunky 4 and 5 pound smallmouth. Lake St. Clair would be cool too. 

 

 

As I grew up in Florida my short term goal is to hit south Florida for some LM and maybe some peacocks.  I watched that video in Florida and ever since I have been wanting to try my hand at catching peacocks.  I am hoping I can arrange something either next year or the year after.  Fingers crossed!

 

If we are talking an all expense paid sort of trip then I would probably hit the Amazon for peacocks.

In the winter - Devils Lake ND for jumbo perch and walleyes galore.

 

In the summer - Any stream dumping into James or Hudson Bay.  A Fly-In trip for speckled trout, it can't get better than that!

Lots of people would go to the great lakes for smallies....I would still go to the Columbia River.  Lots of fish...very few people.  Even though it wouldn't be an exotic trip I would like to fish a few lakes in the states where there is a lot of history even though I may not catch much...ie: Dale Hollow, Kentucky Lake, Potomac River, to mention a few.  Of coarse this would require a motor home and some time off and the cash....soooo may be on bucket list for some time.

Large mouth: 1.Clear Lake  2.Chickamauga  3.Toledo Bend  4.El Salto 5.Big-O

Small Mouth:  1.Erie  2.Sturgeon Bay  3.Coeur D'alene  4.Oneida  5. St. Lawrence River

think i would like a pontoon plane with a boat and go all over Alaska and fish some lakes in the middle of no where.  and the amazon river 

Austrailia for some reef fishing to catch who knows what

Brazil for peacock.

Lake Erie (Putin Bay area) for Smallmouth.

Guntersville for Largemouth.

 

Why the islands for smallies? I have others things to do when I go out the the islands that don't involve fishing. There are better places for the brown ones but right there on the mainland around marble head and all that has produced some nice large mouth for me. It is one of the places where it is more ideal for them with the the land not being 30' above the water like it can be and all the vegetation that will grow out there.

 

But I would like to hit one of the places in Mexico and pitching on Okeechobee would be a blast.