Going back...

[Paul Roberts]

Wonderful thread.

[HawkeyeSmallie]

Quetico Park - Canada.

 

Went there three different times with my father and group of guys. Smallmouth, Walleye, Pike, the best. Beautiful with close encounters with bear and moose.

 

My life won't be complete until I take my kids up there. Amazing place. Takes some hard work but it's worth it.

[lonnie g]

a neighbors pond that no longer exist. had line broke more than once there, of course that old gear dad had wasn't much. its a place my dad took me often as a boy. and anther lake that we pretty much stocked over several years that was bought by out of state people, that doesn't allow fishing. again done with my dad. I know one day we will get to do it again, just in another and better place.

[Bucky205]

Outside bream fishing with my dad or granddad on the Black Warrior, bass fishing on Rodman Reservoir is my definite all time favorite.

[jbmaine]

Mine is Mousam lake ME.

We had a camp there when I was a kid. It's where I learned to fish, swim, and water ski.

Unfortunately we had to sell it when I was 13. I'm 62 now and still dream of it.

My wife and I still fish there but I always get sad when we go past the old camp.

                                                             Jim

[RPreeb]

Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

 

Like most of the posts here, my best memories are from where I fished when I was growing up.  We lived in White Bear Lake, MN, but we had a cabin at Balsam Lake which had been part of a resort that my great grandfather owned and operated in the '20s and '30s.  My grandmother, my mother, and my brother and I all grew up there during our summers at the lake, and that is where we taught ourselves what little we knew of fishing.  I never caught any monsters, but I caught a lot - largemouth, crappie, walleye, bluegill, punkinseed, rock bass, perch.  There were northerns in the lake, but somehow I never tied into one through the 10 or so years that I fished there.

 

I was back to Minnesota for my 50th high school reunion 3 years ago for the first time since 1963, and I made the short side trip to see the old stomping grounds.  I was surprised at how much smaller the lake looked than what was in my memories.  I didn't get to fish on that trip, but I did talk to a couple of guys putting their boats in, and they said that the fishing was still pretty good.  

[JustJames]

Come to think of it, I'd like to re-answer this question. I also would like to go back too not place but in time.

I remember when I was in teen, my mom was the one start all of us fishing. It wasn't any kind of hardcore fishing, just a resort/restaurant type with man made pond where you can sit down next to the pond fishing for tilapia or catfish while eating dinner. We did that may be once a month where all family get together, talk, eat and enjoy each other.

[A-Jay]

Like so many, my memories are sacred and seem to become even more precious with time.  

Not so sure I'd be willing to go back.

Don't want to mess up a good thing . . . . . . . . 

A-Jay