Northwest Fishing Reports

Hypothetical situation:

You go to see your doctor and he says, "I have bad news. You're dying. But you have enough time to get one last fishing trip in before you go."

So, where would you go for your very last fishing trip and why?

Alaska in the summertime - more daylight = more fishing

I would go fishing for a great white shark......

that's a tough one....either alaska or the amazon.

I would spend a weekend in the Fall wading Safety Harbor, just north of Tampa Bay. It's full of sea trout, snook, cobia, redfish, and hammerheads (which sucks for wading, but ya gotta try it sometime). A bait bucket full of live shrimp, my trusty Fishbonz rod, and me chest deep in the water catching something on every cast but never knowing what you're gonna get.

I would hit Texas and the rest of "Tornado Alley" (OK, AR, KS, MS, etc.). I would disregard all fences and signs, what are they gonna do??? I'm dying right?

I'd eat all the deep fried food along the way...."yes, I think I want chili on that and yes, I do want the SUPER size"...gotta love the Mid-west and South.

I'd go back to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. I'd bring my family & enough beer and fish fry to fill two canoes. It doesn't get better than going three or four days deep into that area of backcountry and spending a week or two. I did three weeks up there about 15yrs ago and have longed to go back ever since.

Boundary Waters and The Quetico - that's a good choice. But I'd want a porter to carry the canoe and backbacks - I am dying, right? Need some help here!

Marlin fishing in Mexico with some hot senioritas in bikinis serving me brewskies.

Joe

Somewhere off Alaska (never been up there).

i would go back to new london minnesota,s mill pond. always has big crappie, bluegills, nice bass, northern pike, chain pickeral, bowfin, walleye, plus the occasional big snapping turtle. the people are great, there are alot of my relatives that live around the area, so there would be tons of scandanavian food dish's (oofda!) they really know how to put on the food. here's a site that has alot of great pictures of the mill pond area along with lots of other great photography. http://www.pbase.com/harpeggio click on to recent, then scrool down to mill pond. just to be able to relive the best of times. <')//<

Well fishinislife beat me to it on the Peacock bass thing. I would grab my Fly Rods and head to the Kamchatka in Russia for 3 weeks of the best rainbow trout fishing in the world then down to the Amazon for Peacock on topwater and streamer flies. Great now I get to think about this for the next week or so.

I agree with the whole Amazon trip for Peacock Bass, but what would you eat while you were there???? You can't drink the water....Native's in trees are shooting darts laced with poop at you, licking their chops hoping you fall in the water....the water....HOLLY BIG CREEPY FISH!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of those fish don't even have NAMES yet!!!! Call me wimpy, but I prefer going out with some good 'ol Southern home cookin in my belly rather than crapping on myself the last few days of my life cause I got thirsty....LOL.

Too funny. AAAHHH....what the heck, count me in. I'll be crapping on myself anyhow my last few days. I'll just throw on a Depends and fish my ____ off.

We're all dying.
So let's just get a trip together and all go down to the Amazon and hammer the Peacocks. We can just act like it's are last days on earth. :bounce:



fishnislife

fishnislife wrote:We're all dying.
So let's just get a trip together and all go down to the Amazon and hammer the Peacocks. We can just act like it's are last days on earth. :bounce:



fishnislife

I'm in



:rambo:

EastsideRedneck wrote:I'd go back to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. I'd bring my family & enough beer and fish fry to fill two canoes. It doesn't get better than going three or four days deep into that area of backcountry and spending a week or two. I did three weeks up there about 15yrs ago and have longed to go back ever since.

I was there as a kid, that was about 17 years ago. I had a good time, it's definetely an experience.

The last place I would like to fish would probably be the Amazon for those Peacoks.

Definitely the Amazon for Peacock bass.

Spent a year in Alaska courtesy of Uncle Sam in '92/'93 and went back on vacation a few years later in '97. No question, back to Alaska!

I'd be happy going to Hebgen Lake. I was there with my dad when I was a kid. That was about 55 years ago, before the earthquake that changed the shape of the lake. I believe my dad and uncle Don Rush were the first people to fish that lake with leaded line.