Off The Grid

[Catt]

We've discussed recently how far y'all tow a boat to go fishing but how far off grid y'all willing to go.

 

I ain't as mad at em as Keith Poche so I don't carry a chainsaw or electric wench.

 

I will jump laydowns, sand bars, levels. I will push pole mud flats & grass fields. I've ran 2 1/2-3 hours one way through marshes & swamps in the dark.

 

Bank fishing I've walked several miles round trip down oilfield roads.

[MN Fisher]

1 minute ago, Catt said:

We've discussed recently how far y'all tow a boat to go fishing but how far off grid y'all willing to go.

Sorry, Tommy - don't have anything like that around here...so I'll say 'Not at all'.

[TnRiver46]

I’ve got a 4wheel drive boat for off grid places, we have lots of rivers too shallow for regular prop boats

[WRB]

Years ago I made a trip down the Ownes River between Bishop to lake Tinemaha the only dam on the river for nearly 40 miles. My son and I put our 14’ Lund w/15 hp OB in the during duck season to jump shot mallards and fish along the way for Smallmouth and Brown trout.

I dropped  my Trail motor cycle at Tinemaha to make the return trip to pick up the tow vehicle and trailer back in Bishop. My son would stay with the boat at the lake.

We never ran across any other people the area is so remote with Elk,deer,  beavers, ducks and a few geese unspoiled river with lots of dead heads, lay downs gravel and sand bars. The trip took the whole day, the main River current about 8 knots with lots of slack water areas.

The River area hasn't changed in decades out of site of out mind area with 1 mile away from hwy 395, but totally overlooked by locals because no access roads.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

I've sawed trees, drug/pushed boats and kayaks across mud flats/sandbars and over logs. 

 

I worked for half an hour, moving logs and limbs, cutting logs, dragging my kayak, just to never make it all the way through this massive logjam. 

[WRB]

My brothers liked to duck and geese hunt as youngsters and we were always looking for remote new places to hunt. There is a lake near the Colorado River called Cibola we hunted before it became a private club. We made the trip without knowing it was sold and started to glass  (binoculars) watching trading ducks fly along the river above Blyth and noticed several birds setting up and going down into a heavily buck brush area above Lost lake resort. 

We decided to check out what was attracting the ducks hiking into the area through thrones buck brush, not easy!

A few ducks continued to circle and set up to land so we knew we were close. We came across a oxbow lake off river surrounded by high brush and a few trees. The lake was full of ducks and geese and shot several. We tried to retrieve the birds and didn’t have a dog with us. I volunteered to go back and get my bass rod with a Spook to hook the ducks to retrieve as the water was very deep and too cold to swim.

Casting the spook to hook a duck a big bass struck the spook. This remote lake had big bass in it.

This was our secret hunting and fishing lake for a few years, still there as far as I know.

Tom

 

 

 

 

[T-Billy]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve got a 4wheel drive boat for off grid places, we have lots of rivers too shallow for regular prop boats

Love the ejection seat!!! Buckle yer chinstrap!!!

[TnRiver46]

10 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Love the ejection seat!!! Buckle yer chinstrap!!!

I took that off but my buddies are mad about it 

[T-Billy]

20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I took that off but my buddies are mad about it 

It's all fun and games until.......

[Tennessee Boy]

I’ve launched at a ramp that didn’t have a dock.  Does that count?  ?

[TnRiver46]

8 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I’ve launched at a ramp that didn’t have a dock.  Does that count?  ?

No toilet paper either? The shame 

 

whats strange is the further you get off grid, the more crackheads you seem to encounter 

[N Florida Mike]

My overall goal used to be to get as remote as possible. Probably the most remote I ever fished was a couple different spots in the Cohutta wilderness. in N. Georgia.

I took my wife through there once, and came inches from getting pushed over a drop off on the dirt/gravel road when a rogue dump truck was coming down as we were going up. No guard rails up there! 

In Florida it would probably be the Ocala Nat. Forest. I’ve been all through it fishing/ hunting. 385,000 acres, if I remember correctly…

Also did several day trips down the Ockloconee river near Tallahassee, where we didn’t see another soul all day…

The Ocklawaha is like that too, looks like old Florida before all the newcomers came…

 

[12poundbass]

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Sorry, Tommy - don't have anything like that around here...so I'll say 'Not at all'.

Yup same here. The one magical lake I fish I have to back the boat down a two track that’s a little wider than my truck is about a “off grid” as we have around here. 

[scaleface]

I have caught a lot of bass in irrigation ditches and land-locked ox-bow lakes . They have pretty much silted in now  and I dont know where to find more . Little plastic boat , 10 foot jon boat and canoes is how I accessed them .

[thediscochef]

42 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

No toilet paper either? The shame 

 

whats strange is the further you get off grid, the more crackheads you seem to encounter 

it's why i don't venture far here without a buddy. I'll hike miles with a friend but by myself I tend to stick to populated areas. who knew there was so much crack in the woods?

[Catt]

I know some of y'all fish the Atchafalaya Basin, where y'all at.

 

 

[Mobasser]

My canoe is a good boat to explore new areas. Years ago, I was fishing a lake near home, and my grandson pointed out a very small creek.                                                    We decided to pull the canoe through it. Barely enough room to get through. Went about 20yds and discovered a pond about one acre in size. We never saw it before.  It was surrounded by thick trees and not visible from the main lake.                             I like getting off grid whenever I can.

[GRiver]

In my youth and trout fishing days in West Virginia, we would backpack for days fishing never seeing another soul.

[flyfisher]

I have been known to take a bow saw with me to get my kayak further up or downstream.  As far as on foot goes, I have done many days where i would be 5+ miles up a mountain stream.  

[JackstrawIII]

You guys are awesome. I agree with Tennessee Boy, the extent of my adventures is that one time I helped a buddy launch his boat at a really decrepit launch without a ramp. That's about it.

[Zcoker]

Being way out there at night deep in the Everglades alone in a Kayak is about as off the grid as one can get, imho. It's a very wild and dangerous experience, to say the least. The launch sites are totally random and make-shift, having to be cleared out as you go along by hand or by foot. Then there's the navigation part of the deal, which is as vast as the universe itself... way, way off the grid but so worth it! The bass are like supernovas at night out there, like totally atomic!

[Todd2]

I've busted through ice by the ramp a few times to get out to main lake but that's different.

 

I've walked many a mile hitting ponds in my youth.

 

In the kayak, I've been back in some really skinny waters dodging branches.

[Functional]

back when i was younger and more dumb me and a buddy found a big natural pond by the top of the tallest mountain in our area...about 1600ft rise in elevation. We used to take our jeeps up there but for some reason we decided to hike up the back side of the mountain which took us about 1.5 hours and went and fished the pond.

 

We were about done circling the pond when we came across a cove...that had a public road leading right to it. 

 

We went off the grid to get there, but it wasnt necessary. Not sure if this counts. 

[jbmaine]

Used to fly fish for trout in northern New Hampshire and northern Maine. Hit some remote trout ponds that were "off the grid". 

[NittyGrittyBoy]

I have a 13' Gheenoe to get me to some of the remotest spots around here. I refuse to paddle a kayak that far. And normally carry a chainsaw for unpassable laydowns. The further you get away is usually pretty rewarding. Whatever. It. Takes. Period.