USA Holiday...

[stefanus]

My wife and I intend to visit the USA next year for a holiday. We would love to be by the coast and do some bass fishing. Where are the bass fishing areas, preferably close to the coast.

[PrntRhd]

East Coast or West Coast?

Bassman would be the one to see out here in the West.

[classicsoftware]

Bass would NOT necessarily be close to the coast. The coasts are oceans that are salt water while bass are fresh water fish.

Lake Wallenpaupack (http://www.fishinghotspots.com/e1/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=48&idproduct=49) in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania is nice lake.

this (http://www.fishinghotspots.com/e1/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=40&idproduct=573) spot in New Jersey looks cool.

This site has some info on Bass fishing in Florida (http://www.floridabasslakes.com/).

If you are coming near PA, let me know and we can get together....

[bassman]

Did somebody say bass fishing??? :D
If you come to the West coast, I would be happy to show you some great spots for large mouth, small mouth, and stripped bass. Along with meeting you ;) Let me know.

[yawningdog]

If you're after stripers, Virginia Beach is hard to beat. For largemouth, any place along the gulf coast (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama or Florida) will claim to have the best. One of them is probably right.

I'm sure there is about to be a big, yet light-hearted argument about where the bass fishing is the best.

[mjc]

The bass fishing is the best on which ever body of water I can haul my butt out to on a given day...the rest can just go suck eggs.

[classicsoftware]

The real answer is you can probably find good bass fishing just about anywhere in the USA. I have a lake house and they stock it for me....... The association stocks the lake so fishing is good.

It depends on what else you want to see when you get here. NYC. The Philadelphia/DC historical areas. Civil War stuff. The country is huge. No matter where you decide, you'll find good bass fishing somewhere nearby....

[stefanus]

Thank you guys!

We had two excelent large bass dams on the farm, (Note! We did have). Unfortunately they are a thing of the past. Let us move on. I prefer fresh water fishing to sea water fishing and my wife prefers the coast. I could just drop her some where and; Go Fishing. ;)

East coast would sounds nice and so does the west coast. At the end of the day it will be the 'Madams' choice lol.

Sitting in a boat, casting out and drinking beer, utter joy! :D

Tiger and bream fishing on the Zambezi River and Lake Kariba, realy gets the adrenalin running. Robustus realy gives a good fight, memories.

[bassman]

Did somebody say "Drink BEER??????" :D :cool:
If you come to the West coast, I can show you some fine lakes to sit in a boat and drink the finest micro brew beer in the world. ;)

Oh yea, we can do some fishing too, if you want.

[YODA74]

while bass are fresh water fish


Not nessessarly there are Seabass also and they get huge there are black seabass and white seabass

[Paul Komski]

Bass (fish) Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_%28fish%29).

[bassman]

Did somebody say "Bass"??? :D :D ;)
I drank some bass ale the other night. Man I love that beer. :p

[Paleo Pete]

lol...Bass...beer...Bass beer...

The bass fishing is the best on which ever body of water I can haul my butt out to on a given day...the rest can just go suck eggs.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Bass can be caught on just about any body of water bigger than the boat. That said, Sam Rayburn around Lufkin Texas and Toledo Bend on the Louisiana-Texas border are both hard to beat. I've done plenty beer fishing and bass drinking in both. We've got some pretty good places here in north Louisiana too, and I know of a couple of good spots around Baton Rouge as well.

To get freshwater bass, plan on going about a one to two hour drive inshore, past the brackish water since freshwater bass don't like too much salt. Either coast or the gulf coast, you'll find them an hour inland or so. The southern end of Toledo Bend is no more than an hour inland, maybe 1 1/2. A few will be found closer, but they won't be numerous.

Early spring they start toward the bank and will hit almost any artificial lure, but the very best is a plastic lizard. Plastic worm is a close second. I've caught most of my biggest ones during spawning season (March, most years.) when the only thing females fanning a nest will take is a plastic lizard/salamander, a certain type of salamander will eat their eggs so they eat them first, otherwise nesting females, the largest ones, apparently don't eat. When they do hit another type bait, they take it about 15 feet or so from the nest and spit it out, it's very difficult to catch them except when you throw out a plastic lizard...then the fight is on...I've seen nesting females spit out multiple treble hooks...Plastic worms work almost any time.

Soon as you know where and when, someone here should know a good place to try in that general area. Spring is usually best, and fall. Summer they head for a bit deeper water and are harder to catch. March through May, well let's just say there's a reason you see those guys with jackets and sunglasses headed for the lake...

[stefanus]

Thanks for all the replies guys. I will just have to put all the places into a hat and pick one out. Providing of course the area has the best beer. I prefer lager but... Bass + bass will suffice! ;)

[PrntRhd]

Like Bassman says,
We have Anchor Steam beer, and Gordon Biersch, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Full Sail Ale.
and about a dozen microbreweries.
We have bass fishing too.
;)

Gotta get a quick word in before the Milwaukee members start crowing about their beer.