Your ideal fishing trip
Warren's thread about best bass trip of '04 started me thinking. What is
your IDEAL bass trip? I would imagine for some it would be big fish,
others numbers, or location, or spending time with friends.For me, in order of importance:
1. My ideal trip would have to be shared. 2. The location would have nice scenery with as little evidence of
man as possible. 3. Generally if I could decide one over the other, I'd rather catch 20
small keepers than 2 or 3 larger ones in the same amount of time. UNLESS
one of those large ones was a real trophy! |
Henry
Dec 14
2004
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| I agree. But I'll even add to it that it has to be shared with my son. |
RichZ
Dec 15
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| The fish are a bonus most of the time. Watching the bald eagle at a couple
of lakes I fish, and the other wildlife helps to recharge the human battery.
I can have a great day in the Sacramento Delta, even when the fishing is
tough. River otters, beavers, may even catch other fish. Hooked a 40+
pound salmon on a rattletrap in about 1993 while fishing for bass. fought
it for 2 hours before line failed. 6# test, and had it to boat 3 times and
partner said it was not ready. I said, net it. I am ready! I had been
catching 1-3# bass. Fishing Shasta last year, I hooked a trout with
parasites, was a floater when I released it. Looked back up to see the
osprey about 3' off the water with the fish, about 40' behind the boat. Can
not beat those memories. Fishing Don Pedro, one spring years ago. I landed
about 150 bass and 1 large bluegill. Bass and bluegill were all the same
size. just could not get through the small fish to get a big'un. One other
guy had landed a decent fish and that is the only big fish I knew about that
day. |
Calif
Dec 15
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| Ok... the NWC is going to have to be on Champlain this year! Anyone want to second this motion? |
Charles
Dec 15
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| Fishing Champlain with RichZ, lol |
Charles
Dec 15
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| OR... Float and Fly fishing on Dale Hollow. Oh yeah, I'm close enough to do that
anyway. Wonder what's stopping me? |
Charles
Dec 15
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| I would love to go peacock bass fishing. Those critters look like they could
really make a trip worthwhile. Phil |
Philip
Dec 15
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| I'm just a simple country boy, so to me ANY bass fishing trip is ideal;
month, day, and weather bedamned. But if we're reaching for the stars here, I'd say some lake in Mexico where
fish over 10 lbs are plentiful, or maybe somewhere further South where I
could get a chance at a decent sized Peacock Bass. If that Make-A-Wish stuff
above is too much, I'd settle for tying into a 50+ lb striper down at the
coast here in NC sometime. Of course if we're talking "dream" dates here, I'd like to find a nice lake,
any lake, full of fish, that hadn't seen a hook in it for 10 years or
so....but was otherwise ecologically sound, of course. We had access to a
lake like that once, got fished only a handful of times every year, by only
a handful of people. The owner died, the lake and surrounding property sold,
and fishermen line the bank day in and day out now. The fishing there has
died considerably since, and hardly any keeper bass are ever caught there
anymore. Back in the day, a *bad* day there was 5 or 6 4-pounders, with a
couple 5+ thrown in for good measure. Not bad for a 20 acre lake/pond. |
SimRacer
Dec 15
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| Ya Charles I'll second that! I would love to fish Lake Champlain for a week.
Give Steve a break this year. Chris S |
Chris
Dec 15
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| Amen |
go-bassn
Dec 15
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| We would of course, have to give you and Rich a handicap... |
Charles
Dec 15
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| Then it won't be the Northwoods Classic, it would be the Northeast Classic.
I enjoy organizing and hosting the NWC. |
Steve
Dec 16
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| Put us on some of them smalllies Steve! I still have a picture of you and
that 6lber you caught on the Firetiger SW hanging on my picture board here
at work. People seem to really like that picture. |
Charles
Dec 16
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| What about Cuba? I hear that Castro has some nice bass lakes down there. |
Charles
Dec 16
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| Well, depends on the political climate toward us Yanks down there at the
time. If I thought I could survive the trip, I would consider it. And maybe
puff on a couple of Cuban Cohiba or Partagas smokes while I was there. It
would be kind of hard to sneak cigars in with the bands off coming from
CUBA, so I'd have to enjoy them there. It is much easier to get a few Cuban
smokes in from Aruba....so I hear. lol |
SimRacer
Dec 16
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| Sure it would still be the Northwoods Classic just a bit east that's all :) Chris S. |
Chris
Dec 16
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| I think to anyone from south of the Mason-Dixon, north is north is
north. Being as it's in the north and there ARE woods around much of the
lke in both VT and NY, it might be tough to say it couldn't be called
the Northwoods Classic. |
RichZ
Dec 16
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| Fishing in Brasil for Peacock bass was my favorite trip and if I get the
chance I'm going back. Best topwater strike on the planet!!!! |
bassintheweeds
Dec 16
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| When I lived in Jamestown, NY you could the cuban cigars at the casino on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls. Bill P.
=== "SimRacer" <nOspaM@simracer68@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jAjwd.17502$xR1.946622@twister.southeast.rr.com...
Well, depends on the political climate toward us Yanks down there at the
time. If I thought I could survive the trip, I would consider it. And maybe
puff on a couple of Cuban Cohiba or Partagas smokes while I was there. It
would be kind of hard to sneak cigars in with the bands off coming from
CUBA, so I'd have to enjoy them there. It is much easier to get a few Cuban
smokes in from Aruba....so I hear. lol |
Doc
Dec 16
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| They are also found in the canals around the Miami, Fl. area. Bill P. <bassintheweeds@webtv.net> wrote in message news:13380-41C2389B-329@storefull-3233.bay.webtv.net...
Fishing in Brasil for Peacock bass was my favorite trip and if I get the
chance I'm going back. Best topwater strike on the planet!!!! |
Doc
Dec 16
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| Not to me it wouldn't. I would love to fish the quality fishery called
Champlain, and I will soon, but the Northwoods Classic will always be in
northern Wisconsin. I know that certain individuals have had problems with Boom Lake in the
past. With this thought in mind, I have decided that the 2005 Northwoods
Classic will be held on the quality smallmouth fishery in Tomahawk
Wisconsin, 20 minutes west of Rhinelander. To avoid conflict with another bass tournament that runs on Mohawksin the
weekend after Labor Day (the usual time of the NWC), and to avoid conflicts
in my schedule, the Northwoods Classic will be moved up to the weekend
BEFORE Labor Day. By doing the tournament before many schools start, it's my hope that some
additional members of the ROFB and OutdoorFrontiers can make this a family
vacation, boosting attendance. |
Steve
Dec 16
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| My ideal fishing trip involves going out on a strange water for the first
time, along with a good buddy, and unlocking the key to that lake's fish.
Great scenery & nice weather never hurts either. |
go-bassn
Dec 16
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| Not to me it wouldn't. I would love to fish the quality fishery called
Champlain, and I will soon, but the Northwoods Classic will always be in
northern Wisconsin. I know that certain individuals have had problems with Boom Lake in the
past. With this thought in mind, I have decided that the 2005 Northwoods
Classic will be held on the quality smallmouth fishery in Tomahawk
Wisconsin, 20 minutes west of Rhinelander. To avoid conflict with another bass tournament that runs on Mohawksin the
weekend after Labor Day (the usual time of the NWC), and to avoid conflicts
in my schedule, the Northwoods Classic will be moved up to the weekend
BEFORE Labor Day. By doing the tournament before many schools start, it's my hope that some
additional members of the ROFB and OutdoorFrontiers can make this a family
vacation, boosting attendance. |
Joe
Dec 16
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| I am going to the Amazon for a week the first of Feb. Staying at an
eco-camp for a few days and they say you can fish for piranas. I am taking
a couple of Spooks and maybe another top water for the possibility of
Peacock bass. Or some other big toothed, nasty fish. This is a pretrip
add on for a Galapagos trip, and I do not think they allow us to fish there.
;(
Bill |
Calif
Dec 17
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| What lures? I am going to the Amazon in a month.
http://www.oattravel.com/gcc/general/default.aspx?oid=76831
Bill |
Calif
Dec 17
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| the Canadian side of Niagra Falls. Bill P. Oddly enough, the most Cuban cigars I've been able to "come across" in my
days have been from "big town" cab drivers (Washington DC, NYC, Atlanta) as
they have "cousins" that fly in from all over Europe & the Middle East, buy
them in the duty free shops over there and somehow get them into the US to
sell through their informal "cab drivers" network. And if they are fake,
they're darn good ones, down to the boxing and very very authentic looking
bands. Honestly though, some of the Dominican stuff that we can already buy here is
not too bad. No more cigars than I smoke a year anyway. Now that the Opus X
isn't so hard to get, Cuban smokes aren't that big of a deal anyway IMO.
They're very decent "legal" smokes. |
SimRacer
Dec 17
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