2.25 hour drive or 7 minutes? Haha

[Darth-Baiter]

I am really torn.  Tough week at work.  Fish are biting at a lake down the street.  Just yanking anything weightless and weedless down the grass alleyways is getting bit.  It a 7 minute drive. Gate opens at 6:30.   I have a fist full of Yamamoto shad shapes at the ready.  I could get by with two rods.
 

or. 
 

load up and go for a trek.  Last time lake was gin clear. ***. Potential giants but I haven’t been there for months. It up in the mountains so I know their nights have been in the low 40’s. I bet the bass are transitioning to the next phase, whatever that is.   I heard the grass is grown in. If I go, I’ll need to crack the code for sure. Oddly enough the gate opens at 8:00 am. Last risers!    Very little to no fishing pressure since the lake is so difficult to reach.  You need a high clearance vehicle. 
im laying on my couch, about to load my kayak into the truck.  Hmmmmm. Maybe I flip a coin. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

Go on an adventure. Make a day of it.  

[slonezp]

Who cares? Just go.

[Bankc]

It's fishing!  You win either way!  If you can't decide, flip a coin.  

[moguy1973]

Fishing is fishing.  Better than any day at work.  Although making a trip out of it and not catching kind of sucks, especially on an unknown body of water you have to spend time figuring out. 
 

but fishing > working

[Jig Man]

I have 30 minutes, 1 hour & 15 minutes, 1 hour and 45 minutes.  I do the first 2 most of the time because they are larger.  But I’m getting ready for the fall bite farther away.

[islandbass]

Three words. .. flip a coin. ?

[GaryH]

Do both. Make a outing out of it. Hit the furthest as soon as it opens and fish till early afternoon then head back and hit the smaller one for a few hours. Enjoy and good luck.

 

[WRB]

We have zero public lakes less then 45-60 miles away, drive depends on traffic. Driving 1 to 3 hours is standard practice.

you can always fish the close anytime, longer drive requires more planning, longer windshield time both ways, less time on the water. Change is always a challenge well worth the effort.

Tom

[DitchPanda]

Anymore for me I have just as much fun staying close...lets say 45 minutes or closer...for a day or half day trip. I'm not an old man but I will say if you get up before the sun spend 6-8 hours in the sun and had 4-6 hours of driving on top of it I don't care who you are that's a long day. If I plan on fishing that far away I stay overnight...get up and fish in the morning  a few hours then head home.

[moguy1973]

43 minutes ago, WRB said:

We have zero public lakes less then 45-60 miles away, drive depends on traffic. Driving 1 to 3 hours is standard practice.

you can always fish the close anytime, longer drive requires more planning, longer windshield time both ways, less time on the water. Change is always a challenge well worth the effort.

Tom

We are the same where I live.  Unless you have a jet boat to fish the rivers for smallmouth or drive over to less than productive hot tub mud hole lakes in Illinois there isn’t anything close to take a boat. Lake of the Ozarks is 3 hours, Table Rock is 4 hours, Bull Shoals is 4 1/2 hours. Stockton is 4 hours. That doesn’t leave a lot of fishing time if I’m doing a day trip. Those involve finding places to stay, places to keep the boat, and all the planning around that. Is why I’m looking for a river jet. Plenty of river fishing for smallies within a half hour or less. 

[PressuredFishing]

On 10/1/2021 at 5:00 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

I am really torn.  Tough week at work.  Fish are biting at a lake down the street.  Just yanking anything weightless and weedless down the grass alleyways is getting bit.  It a 7 minute drive. Gate opens at 6:30.   I have a fist full of Yamamoto shad shapes at the ready.  I could get by with two rods.
 

or. 
 

load up and go for a trek.  Last time lake was gin clear. ***. Potential giants but I haven’t been there for months. It up in the mountains so I know their nights have been in the low 40’s. I bet the bass are transitioning to the next phase, whatever that is.   I heard the grass is grown in. If I go, I’ll need to crack the code for sure. Oddly enough the gate opens at 8:00 am. Last risers!    Very little to no fishing pressure since the lake is so difficult to reach.  You need a high clearance vehicle. 
im laying on my couch, about to load my kayak into the truck.  Hmmmmm. Maybe I flip a coin. 

Depends on what ya wanna do closest lake to me is 15 minutes, next one is about 25, and two others are 45 minutes away, if I'm only going fishing for an hour I just go to the closest one, if I go all day I go to whichever one I think I'll catch more fish, or explore 

[MontclairDave]

Last 10 days I’ve caught 2 6 lbrs in lakes less than an hour drive from me. Bigger than any bass I ever caught in all the years I have been dragging my arse up to the Adirondacks. Ya never know where the next pig will be!