Drive time to fishing grounds?
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Here in SW Florida there are baby tarpon right out the back door in the canal but they’re a pain to catch with a fly.
John, eventually the English (or European) fishing law got booted!
Can’t imagine how that would be out here….
Newport, RI – 10 minutes (5 days/week)
Chatham, MA – 1.75 hours (10-12 days/year)
Martha’s Vineyard, MA – 2:00 hours w/ferry ride (not enough days)
Catskill MTN NY – 4.50 hours (8-10 days/year)
Cattaraugus Creek, NY – 11 hours (2-4 days/year)Trout – 2 hrs will have me on any of 7 fantastic tailwaters, and 30 minutes to the Clinch, Holston, & Smokies.
Here in Connecticut we have lots of options:
Saltwater destinations between 5 minute walk from the house or as far as we want to drive (usually 20 minutes, occasionally two hours)
Stocked trout within a 20-minute drive (excluding the town pond that they stock for kids each spring)
Nearest bass pond is about 10 minutes.
Outstanding trout fishing within 1 hour 15 minutes in CT, or a bit over two hours to the Catskills in NY.
Five and a half hour drive to steelhead and salmon on the Lake Ontario tributaries.
There is also lake fishing for trout or even muskie, carp fishing in rivers, and more, but those aren’t my thing. I must say having the salt so close makes me lazy.
Zack, a “King’s grant” or “Royal Grant” is a piece of property that has, in its title history, a grant from the King of England.
A few history notes on items I’ve run across recently that relate:
Zach, there were French and Spanish land grant claims in Arkansas. They only amounted to about 1% of Arkansas’ total land area. Most of these claims were around the early decades of the 1800s. A descendant of John Law actually claimed all of Arkansas on the basis of Louis XV’s grant. He was unsuccessful.
I’ve read that there was data to believe individuals would readily travel 200 miles to find good fishing in the 1920s. The trend continues to today and seems to be related to American’s love affair with the automobile.
Although, my father-in-law says his grandfather would load up the family in the wagon and travel across the Arkansas River a few days to the Fourche La Fave to spend 4-5 days fishing even though there were places closer to fish.
Road trips and fishing. They just seem to go together, Tim.
You. Win. 🙂
Seriously, though, all of France, all of northern Germany, all of Switzerland and Belgium – nothing in that whole region is worth going to?
Zach
Hi all,
I’m from Hamburg and like Jay I really like fishing rivers in Bavaria and Austria and that’s an 7-10 hours drive.
A mountain range called Harz is a 2 hours drive away and there you can fish for brown, brook and rainbow trout as well as grayling in a variety of freestone and spring creeks. Most of those streams get pretty crowded, though, and I think the german law is awful when it comes to fishing licenses for foreigners.
Then you have the danish border a 1,5 hours drive from Hamburg and there you have the most beautiful creeks you can think of. A lot of grayllings, brown trout and more and more sea trout and salmon fishing and you don’t have to pay such ridiculous prices for a day licenes as you have to pay in Austria.
cheers
Lukas1. How did the Declaration of Independence not nullify something the King of England declared?
2. When hearing of the 7 hour drive across Germany for trout my first reaction was…”There HAS to be good fishing in Denmark.”
I am in Kansas City, MO.
3 hours to a Missouri trout park, but that is like trying to fish at Wal-Mart.
3.5 hours to Taneycomo which is crowded but a nice tailwater.
4.5 hours to Rim Shoals on the White.
4.5 hours to Norfork.Lots of options for Bluegill, bass, and carp close to home but it is a drive to get to clear cold water.
-Jerod
The Jackson was to be a blue ribbon tail water, but that is gone for now. The question is will this issue show up on the Watauga or South Holston?
It is blue ribbon all the way. The only thing is now you can fish the 3/4 mile stretch the state owns or knock and ask. According to VDGIF fisheries biologist Paul Bugas, Allegheny county is about to start work on a path along the lower tailwater, downstream of the King’s Grant section. This will open up legal access to the river for recreational use, including fishing.
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