Have you ever and if not, why not?

[Susky River Rat]

If you are fishing water like you are describing it’s private property. Unless you have permission you’ll be trespassing. I have yet to see an untouched spot on the susky.  

[Swamp Girl]

48 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’d give anything to go fish that lake one or two more times. 

 

This is the genesis for another thread, a thread about the places we'd love to fish one more time...and why. 

 

49 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

A Canada trip to a secluded lake is on my bucket list for sure.

 

I do hope it happens.

[DaubsNU1]

19 hours of drive time to the Churchill river system in Canada (recent trip). We fished four solid days and encountered just one other boat...the lodge owner jigging for some walleye.

 

Boat ride from the lodge to fishing areas was 30+ miles. Very secluded, very wild. So many places to fish...so little time. I cannot wait to head north again!!

 

I would love to find secluded, out of the way areas near me. Few exist any more. 

[Swamp Girl]

Hardcore, @DaubsNU1.

[Scott F]

A remote river in the UP of Michigan. No way to get to this spot except by floating.

 

[Woody B]

When I was younger I camped, fished and hunted quite a bit in and around the Linville Gorge.  I also used to tube and fish several local rivers.  

[steve carpenter]

Started fishing in the Sierra Nevadas at about 10 yoa with my Dad. Later as a teenager we would study topo maps of high mountain lakes and backpack into them. Very remote and beautiful. Sometimes the trout fishing was great and others suffered ice fish kills due to being shallow. Some of my fondest memories. 77 now and I wonder if those same isolated spots are pristine because of population growth in CA. Love fishing remote creeks and rivers here in TX

[Swamp Girl]

49 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Later as a teenager we would study topo maps of high mountain lakes and backpack into them. Very remote and beautiful.

 

I have never fished alpine lakes. I'm jelly!

[TLHSS]

Solo canoe trips in isolated, out-of-the-way places?  No ... not for me.  Why you may ask?

 

I also have an unhealthy phobia of banjo music ...

[Bazoo]

I've not had the good fortune to fish places that are wild, or by myself. Closest I've come is a private lake up the road from church that has very little pressure. I don't fish it by myself as I normally stop with my family after church Sunday and Wednesday.

[Lottabass]

I like people, I just don't want to be around them.

[whitwolf]

The swamps of Eastern North Carolina. I grew up fishing, frog gigging, and exploring as far back as we could go. Before the stroke me and my brother still did. It's a lot of work but the Bass fishing is incredible.  

 

I only go twice a year now as my brother has to do the lions share of the work. The Bass fishing is still great(most days) and we never see another soul. 

 

I live 5 hours away and the lakes I fish now are anything but peaceful.( during the day) I go at night because there's relatively no boat traffic. 

 

I miss the swamp. The Black water....

 

The first picture is Lake James where I live now. The second is the clearing heading into the swamp.

[Swamp Girl]

@whitwolf: Always glad to read about the fishing life of another swamp rat. There are a number of us at BR. 

[HighCountryBassAssassin]

I had a little pond in MO I fished for many years, caught some nice fish outta that place. I loved the peace, the quiet, and the fact that I could frog all day and smash them.  That being said, the only other person I fished that place with was my Dad, and for me, that's just as good as having the place to myself.  

 

I now find myself in CO, and if I could, I would love to find another little pond like that.  I fished Wateree for years and loved it as well, caught some huge fish, but I'll always miss the solitude of that little reservoir.  

[MIbassyaker]

I'm mostly uninterested in fishing socially, and almost always go alone.   I spend almost every other moment of my life around people, so I treat fishing as my chance to disengage from them for awhile.

 

If I had my way, I would always have the water to myself every time.  I fish a semi-regular rotation of around 3-dozen distinct lakes and river sections within an hour of my house.  All can be accessed publicly, and get fished regularly by other people. But some are pretty out of the way and not well known, and a couple I found only with some effort.   I live in a moderate population center and I don't have time to travel far on a typical trip. So even the less-travelled waters are not really that lonesome.  However, on a few, I rarely see anyone else if I am there on a weekday morning.

 

The two most "lonesome" lakes I fish both require paddling in from a creek to access. One is entirely on state land and completely undeveloped. The other has privately owned shoreline, but pretty small and marshy enough that most of it has not been developed.

 

"Lake 12":

 

and "Lake 13":

 

(13 fishes quite a bit better than 12, though)

 

[geo g]

Years ago I have fished some areas in the Everglades where it is difficult to get into, especially during low water conditions.  Isolated from other human activity.   Sometimes the only way in, is with a push pole,  powerful trolling motor, even having to get out and pull the boat over shallow weirs.   The problem with going places no one else fishes is, if you have a problem, you only have yourself to get out of it.  The young bucks don't think about it, but the older you get, survival becomes an issue, and as night falls suddenly you see red eye glare everywhere. LOL

So I have done it, going to places without human contact all day!  Caught lots of bass, but I have also learned lessons, that were painful at the time.  I NOW consider it a young man's game plan!

[txchaser]

I got to fish a high-altitude trout lake, far away from everyone. Ended up using my bass fishing skills to figure out what they wanted, which was really fun... they weren't eating the usual trout on a spinning rod stuff like a mepps.

 

[PaulVE64]

As a teenager I was up in Algonquin Park with a buddy on a two week canoe trip. On the 3rd day out we found 2 rods, reels and a tackle box at the end of a portage. We hadn't seen anyone those three days, the gear might have been there for weeks. We ate fresh lake trout everyday of that trip and many similar trips after that.

My wife enjoys camping and canoeing too, in fact every one of my kids has enjoyed breast milk heated over a camp fire.

 

In the past few years I've been lucky enough to go fishing in the Alberta Rockies and out on the Prairies. Its all very scenic/remote and the fishing is world class but its a bit overwhelming when you first realize that any bear encounter means they''ll likely never find your body. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, PaulVE64 said:

As a teenager I was up in Algonquin Park with a buddy on a two week canoe trip. On the 3rd day out we found 2 rods, reels and a tackle box at the end of a portage. We hadn't seen anyone those three days, the gear might have been there for weeks. We ate fresh lake trout everyday of that trip and many similar trips after that.

My wife enjoys camping and canoeing too, in fact every one of my kids has enjoyed breast milk heated over a camp fire.

 

In the past few years I've been lucky enough to go fishing in the Alberta Rockies and out on the Prairies. Its all very scenic/remote and the fishing is world class but its a bit overwhelming when you first realize that any bear encounter means they''ll likely never find your body. 

 

 

Your post made me wistful. I fear I'm too old to thrive in wilderness anymore. I'm just glad I can still reach water in Maine where I'm alone.