One week of fishing anywhere?

[Swamp Girl]

You get to fish for one week anywhere with no limits other than you're at one general area for one week. Where would that place be and why? For example, you may pick Lake Baccarac today or Castiac Lake at its peak. Heck, you can even choose to fish in @WRB's boat at Castiac's peak. Or fish for seven straight nights with Pat Cullen, the Georgia legend, who caught over 1,100 bass over 10 pounds. Or you could choose to be a kid again and fish with your grandfather at his farm pond. Or you could fish with the now-deceased Doug Hannon at his honey holes for a week. Or fish with Jimmy Houston at his peak. Anything, anywhere, anytime! Don't forget to explain why too.

 

 

I'd choose to be 25 again and fish for a week in northwestern Ontario. Being  25 would give me the strength to undertake mile-long portages and those portages would put me on water that no one else would struggle to reach. It would be pristine fishing again. Yeah, I have it pretty good in Maine, with a couple bodies of water with zero homes, but they're far from wilderness, even though there are some people who make-believe that they are. Being in a place without planes and distant cars and zero detritus of humanity is my Nirvana. I want to hear wolf song, not AC/DC. I want to see bears, not bear traffic. And my Dad would be young enough too to be in the canoe with me.

 

 

  

[Lottabass]

I like your choice.  I'd be right there with you on the other end of the canoe!

[A-Jay]

I want to be exactly here looking right at this Lady smiling at a bass. 

Second place isn't even close.

A-Jay

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, Lottabass said:

I like your choice.  I'd be right there with you on the other end of the canoe!

 

I'd be happy to have you as a fishing and adventure pal!

[padlin]

Since you added a Time Machine to the possibilities. I’d be 10, fishing for flounder, back when you caught as many as you wanted, from a row boat in Westbrook Ct. What a completely carefree time.

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, padlin said:

I’d be 10, fishing for flounder, back when you caught as many as you wanted, from a row boat in Westbrook Ct. What a completely carefree time.

 

Well, @Lottabass is gonna hop into my canoe, but when we're done, I'm gonna hop into your rowboat and fish for flounder. That sounds like a blast and a half!

[Reel]

31 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

 

 

I'd choose to be 25 again and fish for a week in northwestern Ontario. Being  25 would give me the strength to undertake mile-long portages and those portages would put me on water that no one else would struggle to reach. It would be pristine fishing again. Yeah, I have it pretty good in Maine, with a couple bodies of water with zero homes, but they're far from wilderness, even though there are some people who make-believe that they are. Being in a place without planes and distant cars and zero detritus of humanity is my Nirvana. I want to hear wolf song, not AC/DC. I want to see bears, not bear traffic. 

 

 

  

I've done that... been to places where no ones around for hundred's of miles and where the fishing is easy and liked it but not that much.  When I catch too many fish I loose interest and don't get so much out of it.  I prefer places with some pressure (not too much) but where you have to work for your fish.

[Pat Brown]

Definitely somewhere In Japan! Something tells me a Carolina boy that walks his frogs just right - might just get one of them 23 pound trout eaters out of Biwa!  😎😏😂

[Swamp Girl]

3 minutes ago, Reel said:

no ones around for hundred's of miles

 

"Hundreds of miles" was a heckuva long and expensive floatplane ride. Northern Manitoba? Ungava? Northwest Territories? 

 

I'd love to see @Pat Brown break the WR in Japan.

 

From the shore.

 

In the rain.

 

And the 24-pound bass would break free right at the shore, but Jake would leap on it and Father and son would be given co-credit as the new world record holders.

[Reel]

Northern Manitoba

[Dwight Hottle]

Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho for a week with the chance to catch the biggest smallmouth of my lifetime. Anybody else thinking the same thing? I have some LC pointer 128's that mimic baby Kokanee that I'm dying to try.  

[Swamp Girl]

23 minutes ago, Reel said:

Northern Manitoba

 

That would do it. It's wild up there. I wrote a story about a couple Germans who had to swim and bushwhack their way out of the wilderness of Manitoba. It's here:

 

https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/wrong-canoe-right-stuff

 

I also wrote about a guy who was trying to ski and paddle from the end of the Aleutians to Greenland. He lost some toes on the way to frostbite. I couldn't find my story, but it might be in the Intertubes somewhere. 

 

16 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho for a week with the chance to catch the biggest smallmouth of my lifetime. Anybody else thinking the same thing? I have some LC pointer 128's that mimic baby Kokanee that I'm dying to try.  

 

That's a good one, Dwight. I'd love to see you fish there too. 

 

 

My second pick would be fishing with Pat Cullen. His more than 1,100 DDs suggest that he caught thousands and THOUSANDS of six, seven, eight, and nine-pounders. At night! So thrilling and spooky, but if Pat were there, I'd just be a scaredy kitten, not a full-blown scaredy cat.

[Jar11591]

Baccarac. Second would be northern Ontario. 

[Steveo-1969]

Lake hopping in Michigan for a week with Mark Zona. Bonus participant would be @A-Jay…

[Reel]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

That would do it. It's wild up there. I wrote a story about a couple Germans who had to swim and bushwhack their way out of the wilderness of Manitoba. It's here:

 

https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/wrong-canoe-right-stuff

 

 

Yes, that looks similar to the place I went to.  But I got in and out on an Otter so none of these problems.  Lots of fish - walleyes almost every cast and big, big pike  (visible) that you could chose in a group of fish of different size ( mostly big).

[Skunkmaster-k]

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I want to be exactly here looking right at this Lady smiling at a bass. 

Second place isn't even close.

A-Jay

The videos of you fishing with your wife are my favorites on your channel. The banter is hilarious and her hooksets are epic. 

[Swamp Girl]

27 minutes ago, Reel said:

big, big pike  (visible) that you could chose in a group of fish of different size ( mostly big)

 

That would be so exciting. I'm guessing you were there early when the pike were shallow. 

 

2 hours ago, Reel said:

where the fishing is easy and liked it but not that much

 

If you want to experience effort and you're not too old, skip the Otter and bushwhack. There are few moments as exciting when you're sneaking through the woods with no portage trail and you see the shimmering blue of your destination for the first time.

[king fisher]

Lake Menderchuck with a guy that drives a Lund around, and owns so many Vision 110's the Bait Monkey told him to back off on the Megabass purchases as my guide.

[TnRiver46]

Home, I hate traveling 😂 

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Home, I hate traveling 😂 

 

Who said anything about traveling? This is magical thinking! You're allowed to time travel and resurrect the dead, after all. 

[DaubsNU1]

I'd head back to the Churchill River system in Canada to chase big Pike. And catch eater-sized walleye...on pike lures!

 

Brother and I made this trip last summer...we are slated to head that way again in 2026. Wish we could take my Dad...but at 83 years old, it's too much of a trip for him.

 

I gotta get my brother to hone his photography skills : )

 

[Swamp Girl]

5 minutes ago, DaubsNU1 said:

Wish we could take my Dad...but at 83 years old, it's too much of a trip for him.

 

Remember time traveling is allowed. Travel back in time and go fish the Churchill with your younger father. The Churchill is a mighty river, for sure.

[DaubsNU1]

5 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

Remember time traveling is allowed. Travel back in time and go fish the Churchill with your younger father. The Churchill is a mighty river, for sure.

 

Then time travel we shall!  It is so great to see him catch fish!

 

[looking45]

I’m happy where I am, 9 miles from Lake Shasta, fishing for spotted bass. Average days are 20-40 fish, great days are 100+.   Most of the fish are 1-1/2-2#, but there are enough 3-5# fish and the occasional 7 pounder. My friends and I have a blast fishing 1 power rods with 4# test. 

[T-Billy]

I'd probably head for the deep blue with @king fisher in search of marlin, tuna, and whatever else he could come up with.