I recently moved to DE and I'm hoping to do a little fishing this year. The largest body of water listed on the state site was 101 acres.

No offense to native Delawarians, but many of those 'lakes' and 'ponds' would not even be mapped in many states. (2, 5, 7... acres)

Seems hard to imagine I could even put my Ranger on plane on the larger lakes in DE - especially if there were other boats out there.

I'm used to large NH lakes. I've also fish Santee-Cooper, SC a bunch - as well as the larger lakes in FL (Okeechobee, etc.)

I'm guessing I might have to target Chesapeake Bay - or travel a little farther into other nearby states (MD & PA). I hear the bass fishing is good in parts of the bay, but I'm not thrilled about what the brackish water might do to the boat/trailer.

I have literally JUST started looking around for fishing information and have little idea what is out there - so I'm open to all suggestions.

Or maybe I should try fly-fishing again and hit some of the smaller streams for whatever bites...?

thanks in advance

The Upper Bay is a great fishing area.The Northeast,Bohemian,and the Sassafras rivers just to name a few are good places to start.The water will not bother your boat.The Delaware river north of Wilmington all the way up to Trenton N.J. All are tidal waters, go to Saltwatertides.com to find the tide changes.Good luck.

thanks for the info

still trying to decide if I should let the Ranger stay up north for occasional use or leave it down here...  

There's not much in Eastern Pa worth coming to from Delaware IMO. That's why I mainly fish Nothern NY. You may want to try the Potomac. I've never fished it but most of the pros I've fished with love it.

After looking around the net, I think it's likely that I'll be targeting the upper Chesapeake bay as confirmed by jt236.

The Susquehanna flats, the lower section of the Susquehanna river, Elk River, Sassafras River, etc..  are all nearyby.

I'll continue to search around here for relevant info.  Thanks