Where would you want to live to have access to the best fishing? Any Country, any State.

I'd like my kids and grandkids to live a little closer, but I'm happy living where I'm at.

I wouldn't mind having a winter place in Florida so I could saltwater fish.

Summer, no thanks. I'll stay here in the summer time.

If I was looking to be on really big LMB,

I'd need to change my citizenship status.

If I wanted to keep harassing the Brown Bass,

I'm probably good where I'm at.

Maybe I could go for dual citizenship.

Yea, that's the ticket.

😁

A-Jay

@A-Jay I love the pics of those beautiful bronze Michigan bass!

36 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

If I was looking to be on really big LMB,

I'd need to change my citizenship status.

If I wanted to keep harassing the Brown Bass,

I'm probably good where I'm at.

Maybe I could go for dual citizenship.

Yea, that's the ticket.

😁

A-Jay

Michico!

Biased - but I’d stay put. 🙂

No reason to go anywhere

Mike

If we’re talking fishing only, then I’d have a little cabin on the shores of Lake Baccarac.

I would split my time between Texas & Mexico for chasing green bass & probably NY state for access to Erie, Ontario & the two most productive rivers Niagara/St Lawrence for chasing brown bass. I would also devote a month to Idaho to fish Dworshak reservoir.

I would have a house on Rock Lake in Eastern WA. This is where I grew up and learned to bass fish. I would trade in most of my heavy Mexico bass gear for BFS and fish every day. Even though I only get a chance to fish there once every few years, I still consider it my home lake.

Sometime there is no place like home.

I'm good where I am. I have both brown and green bass and most trips, I don't have to share the ponds and bogs.

I'm pretty fond of the idea of living in South Carolina, somewhere within a reasonable drive of the ocean. I'll always be a multispecies angler, so the allure of being able to fish the ocean where you can catch so many different species has always been attractive to me. The climate is much warmer, which I like, and there's still really good bass fishing as well as other freshwater species that I like to fish for.

I change my mind. I want to live next door to Clayton.

#whereverhegoesI'llgo

Florida! That said, I want to move central/north Florida. Closer to my son in Ocala, less population and traffic, better fishing!

Having lived in Greenvill, SC I’m with @Bluebasser86 . Although I’d move a bit closer to the ocean than G’ville but man, that area was a bass fishing Mecca. Abundant water everywhere and the weather was great!

I could not live in a better place for freshwater fishing. I live in the tropics so I have fishing all year round, no down time. In the boat I have the Everglades 15 minutes from the house, Lake Okeechobee 30 minutes away, and my house is surrounded by man made lakes I can walk around with no spraying and lots of vegetation. These water bodies are all connected to the vast Everglades system and loaded with largemouth, millions of peacock, clown knife fish, Oscars, and Mayans, even big snakeheads. We have freshwater snook, and tarpon that have lived their whole lives in freshwater and adjusted. I fish 6 days a week mostly from the bank, and once a week in the boat. It’s a been a great 40 year experience where I live !❤️

New Hampshire or Vermont. I'm a New Englander and will die a New Englander (just NOT in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts if I can help it).

1 minute ago, DogBone_384 said:

New Hampshire or Vermont. I'm a New Englander and will die a New Englander (just not in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts if I can help it).

Take me with you.

I have 3 neighbors in the process of selling to get away from here. If we didn’t have our kids and grandkids local we’d be gone too.

I'd move about an hour and a half down the road so I could be ion the banks of Hartwell instead of an hour and a half away.

I've thought about this a lot and my disdain for hot weather and love of big water smallmouth makes my choice quite easy- Northern Michigan specifically outside Traverse City. This will give me 1-day access to the world class fisheries of Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Charlevoix, Torch Lake, and a half dozen other great lakes. Plus, Burt and Mullet are about 1.5 hours away. So with big water smallies and largemouth in smaller waters, I should be quite content. Plus, you have lakers, musky, and a variety of other species if you want to chase those.

Obviously, I don't want to live there year around but I plan to live there from April till about early November when I retire. Take a big trip south in early February to probably Florida while I keep my home base around Chicago because of my wife and kids. That's my plan. 8 more years.

Greenville, SC might be the best city in America IMO... that said I would drive 2:15 to Lake Lanier over 45 minutes to Hartwell any day. And I did that many days...

I would live in my house, I like it

Okeechobee for sure. Topwater all year Yes please

Central Oregon. World class rainbow, brown, bull trout, and bass fishing. High lakes and river, so there's tons of variety. I had folks catch and then cull their PB multiple times in the same day, sometimes of multiple species.

Definitely more productive to fly fish a lot of that water, but you can gear fish most of the high lakes and there are absolute tanks swimming in that water. The fist time I had ever saw big swimbaits and glidebats was there back in the day. Coming from the South, I was confident we were waisting our time, and I packed a T-Rig rod so I could actually produce fish. Never picked it up, and I was legitimately sore the next days from boat flipping hawgs.

I've been spoiled by some truly incredible days on the water all across the country. A good chunk of my favorite days were in Central Oregon.