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    Default How far to your home water?

    Hi Guys, living in Auckland NZ the closest good stream fishing is about 2 hours away. I have recently found a few spots for salt water fly in the middle of the city, so can be fishing within 20 minutes of leaving work. Here it is at low tide http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=Meol...kland&t=h&z=14
    How far do you travel to fish your local Home water?
    All the best.
    Mike

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    Mike,

    If 'Home' is where the heart is, then I am 417 miles from my home waters, the Clark Fork River in western Montana.

    Otherwise, the best river fishing 'near' me is the Yakima River in eastern Washington, about 120 miles from me.

    95% of my fishing is done in those two areas.

    Larry ---sagefisher---

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    When I was able to wade freestone rivers, I called the St. Joe in Northern Idaho my "Home Waters." My camp spot there is 110 miles from my driveway. Now that I fish only stillwaters, my "Home Waters" are 3 miles to one lake, and 11 miles to the other.
    Where you go is less important than how you take the steps.
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    Takes me about 20 minutes to get to one of my favorites.
    Joe


    uhh...nevermind

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    20 minutes to three, an hour to two more.

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    I can reach my home "rivers" in a forty five to a ninety minute drive depending upon which river I want to fish for river smallmouth bass. I often fish in local ponds and lakes that are much closer.

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    40 minutes south to one section. From there, 30+ miles of trout river.

    60 minutes in the opposite direction to another section. Can follow the river from there for hours and hours to its headwaters hundreds of miles north. Still haven't fished it all. Never will. Its Green and flows in two states. There's a huge lake in between (10 minutes out the door, in sight from my den)
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    Arrow About 45 miles ...

    ... to where I usually start fishing my home water ...


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    ... and 75 miles to lower end of the stretch where I spend most of my time.

    Hope you enjoy the sampler from last year's runoff. It gets easier and better when it settles down.

    John
    The fish are always right.

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    Default Home water

    Was 5 minutes from the office on the way home- changed jobs - still on the way home but it now takes me 25 minutes to get there, or 2 hours to the cottage for smallmouth.
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    I fish about 190 miles east of here up in the mountains. The creek is a few hundred yards from my cabin and the river is a few miles away by walking or by car. It's funny but way back when I didn't know the creek was nearby when I made an offer on the cabin. It was the dead of winter and the spring thaw brought a wonderful surprise. We still chuckle about it.

    Down here in the flats I'm a couple of miles from a small lake but I prefer moving water so I haven't fished it yet.
    "I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening..."
    Norman Maclean: A River Runs Through It

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