what is the furthest you drive to catch bass. long distance haulers?

[BASS302]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I bought a house close to a boat ramp intentionally, I go many times a week 

Your wife allows you in the house many times a week?  LOL

 

[TnRiver46]

14 minutes ago, BASS302 said:

Your wife allows you in the house many times a week?  LOL

 

After a brief decontamination 

[Jar11591]

Favorite lake in about 45 minutes away. A lot of water I fish are 30 mins to 1.5 hours away. It’s rare I fish somewhere further than 1.5 hours unless im staying overnight. I’ve also been to Mexico to chase bass, but that wasn’t a day trip  

[BASS302]

18 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

After a brief decontamination 

I'm not going to ask what happened to your briefs.

[flyfisher]

I have done 10 hours round trip for a day trip so not sure if that counts or not....i generally don't go super far for fishing only but that is because of time and vacation availability and having a family where I am the only one who fishes really.

 

[Way north bass guy]

I have literally hundreds of lakes and rivers within an hour of me that I can fish, and most of the ones I usually hit are within 20 min of the house. Used to travel 2-3 hours for tournaments, but I’m done with that nonsense nowadays. The furthest I drive now to fish is about 3.5 hours, but that’s to my parents place in Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, where we usually go for several days minimum so the drive isn’t too bad ( heading there in a couple weeks for a day or three to catch some fall super sized smallmouth).

[Bankbeater]

I try not to drive more than 1-1/2 hrs one way to a spot.  A 2 hr drive one way is the longest I will go by myself.  The problem around here is that a 1-1/2 hr drive can turn into a 3 hour drive with an accident on the highway.

[Choporoz]

Lake is about two cast lengths from back porch.  I do routinely drive up to hour and a half to local tournaments, and I've driven 12 hours to larger ones.

[king fisher]

The lake I fish the most takes me 3 hrs. to drive there, I fish for 12 hours, then a 4 hour drive to get home. My friends think I am crazy, especially since I can launch my kayak and go saltwater fishing, right from the dock I where I keep my kayak.   They can laugh all they want, it doesn't bother me.  None of my laughing friends have ever landed a bass over 10 pounds.  I have a chance at hooking a DD. on every cast 12 months a year at this lake.   For me, a chance at a big bass is worth a long drive.

[MN Fisher]

Favorite launch on Tonka - 1 mile

Second favorite launch - 3.2 miles

Dutch Lake - 2.9 miles

Little Long - 5.2 miles

Whaletail Lake - 6.7 miles

[river-rat]

 

Depends on where I'm fishing. My families camp is 45 minutes from home where I go to stay when fishing the Atchafalaya Basin. There are 5 landings within 15-20 minutes from the camp.

 

We also have a place on the Texas side of Toledo Bend. There are two landing less than 3 minutes from this place. Or if I decide to fish Sam Rayburn, I'm 30 minutes from two landings there.

 

And I live in a subdivision that has an 85 acre lake with a concrete boat landing that I can launch my Skeeter - it takes me all of 2 minutes to get there.

 

[Darth-Baiter]

38 minutes ago, king fisher said:

The lake I fish the most takes me 3 hrs. to drive there, I fish for 12 hours, then a 4 hour drive to get home. My friends think I am crazy, especially since I can launch my kayak and go saltwater fishing, right from the dock I where I keep my kayak.   They can laugh all they want, it doesn't bother me.  None of my laughing friends have ever landed a bass over 10 pounds.  I have a chance at hooking a DD. on every cast 12 months a year at this lake.   For me, a chance at a big bass is worth a long drive.

I’m like your Moxie!

[flatcreek]

Clark’s Hill 1.4

Lanier 1

Sinclair 1

Oconee 1

Russell 1.5 

Hartwell 2

Jackson .5

Pickwick 6 Guntersville 4

Clarks Hill I usually camp for a long week

Pickwick and Guntersville stay a week in rental cabins

[Log Catcher]

About an hours drive is the most I will go for a few hours fishing. Have several places a little closer but not my favorite places to fish. The longest trip I ever made was about 450 miles and spent two days fishing Lake Norman. We were staying with some friends down there.

[slonezp]

7 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

WOW!!

 

I'm gonna take my kayak to Minnesota next year.  fish with a friend to see what a big smallie feels like.

It feels like a small smallie only bigger. 

[BlakeMolone]

I mean I drive fifteen hours to go look for cool snakes sometimes, I live in eastern Oklahoma so decent fishing isn’t hard to find, I’m totally willing to drive 2-3 hours or more for good fishing, it’s a good excuse to camp too.

[papajoe222]

For a day trip, I limit it to two hours driving and there are an abundance of lakes within that range for me.  I take one 400mi. trip every year and usually one trip to the Ozarks (about 9hr.), but I skipped that one this year due to gas prices.

[Mobasser]

One lake I fish weekly is 20min from home. Sometimes make a fall trip to the Ozarks, about 4 to 6 hrs away, depending on where we go.

[Mike L]

The farthest I drove to fish a tournament was from SW Fla to the Tenn River. 

Living within 1-3 hrs from some of the best bass waters in the country and a short 1 1/2 hrs from my home lake, I don’t need to travel any farther. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

[new2BC4bass]

23 hours ago, a1712 said:

I drove 2710 miles to the Cali Delta, fished 5 days then drove back home 2710 miles. Hope to do it again soon. I take 2-2 week trips to Florida every year.

Daily, my longest is an hour. Brian. 

Not 2710 miles for me, but we fly to Florida for visits with relation.  Drove the first couple times, but you lose way too much of your 2 week vacation driving plus it takes another few days to recover from the drive.  Keep rods there at a B-I-L's home.  Carry reels with me.

On 9/23/2022 at 11:05 AM, Finessegenics said:

It's really not much but 1 hour is my limit for a one day session. Most of the time I'm 15-30 mins away. If I'm going to stay overnight or fish for a few days, the furthest I've gone is just over 8 hours. 

An hour is about it for me anymore.  Especially with the current gas prices.  Guess it's a good thing I don't own a 20' bass boat as I hear they can be a bear to paddle.

19 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Favorite launch on Tonka - 1 mile

Second favorite launch - 3.2 miles

Dutch Lake - 2.9 miles

Little Long - 5.2 miles

Whaletail Lake - 6.7 miles

I want to live by you. 

[N Florida Mike]

Lately, an hour. In the past , pushing 2 hours max. There is so much fishable water between 1-2 hours away I could  fish a different one every week and not run out for many years…

[MN Fisher]

20 minutes ago, new2BC4bass said:

I want to live by you. 

I'll make it worse

Lake Auburn - where the current state record LMB was caught - 9.1 miles

[roadwarrior]

Lake Toho  2 days drive one-way

Lake Fork   1 day

Toledo Bend 1 day

Guntersville  6  hours

Wilson 4 hours

Bull Shoals 5 hours

Pickwick  2 hours

Lake Michigan (Sturgeon Bay)  1 day air flight & car 

[KCFinesse]

Fishing time > 2-4x drive time (both ways)

 

I'll do 2.5 hour (each way) day trips occasionally but that really starts to stretch it. I will do some dumb things for dumb fish ?‍♂️

 

-Jared

[WRB]

In SoCal with our insane traffic time traveling is more important then distance imo.

Back in the day I would fish the San Diego about once a week, About 4 hours each way for day trips.

Local lakes Casitas, Castaic, Cachuma, Peru and Pyramid are with 1 1/2, average about 45 minutes at o’dark 30 going, double the time returning home.

Long haul trailing a boat lake Guerrero MX would the further most difficult. Columbia River is a full day getting there and returning. Several lakes in NorCal where the OP is close like Clear Lake, The Delta, Berryessa, foothill lakes are numerous along hwy 49, all take about 6 hours one way towing a boat.

Closet lake is West Lake and Sherwood about 25 minutes.

Tom