If you could fish anywhere

[FishnDave]

I feel like the odd man out here, but I would fish the Amazon basin for Peacock bass and/or all the other fantastic species of fish you can find there.

Jim Smith

I'm with you....That's very high up on my list as well. From Arapaima to Arrowana, and Payara to Peacocks...plus all the big & beautiful catfish species!

[Gigmaster]

I like where I am at, but my first choice for fishing is definitely Florida. Fish everywhere, even in puddles.......

[Mike Thomas]

I am English and live in the trout paradise of NZ and last year during a visit "home" to England a very kind gentleman invited me to fish with him on a couple of Chalk Streams close to Salisbury, Having never fished an English chalk stream I was over the moon at the invite and we spent the day fishing some fantastic water and catching some lovely Browns. It was for me a great trip, nothing like fishing in NZ but just as good and just as enjoyable.
So Chalk Stream, done.
Salt Water Flats in the Pacific, Done and can't wait for more!
Swinging for steelhead, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Fishing for big Sea run Trout in Patagonia love to but have to win Lotto first!
Alaska, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Montana, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Grey Mullet in Portsmouth Harbour, maybe next year!
Florida, Cuba, Bahamas....love to but have to win Lotto first!
I think to be fair I will never run out of dream destinations to do exactly that, Dream about. But look at the start of this post, some dreams do come true.
All the best.
Mike

[DaleW]

It would have to be Alaska, especially where we were on the last visit, The Lynn Canal, just a tad north of Juneau.

[quivira kid]

Steelhead alley trip swinging for chrome
Driftless area to wander little blue lines
Wyoming.....
Guadalupe river in TX for Guadalupe bass and cichlids
South Florida for exotics
Alaska for gigantic grayling
Mississippi for big slab crappie, bluegill, and shellcracker
Arkansas or Missouri for small stream native smallmouth

[waskeyc]

Well, that's a tall order. Since I'm not planning on learning new languages or reforming political systems for fishing, places like Kamchatka and Iran are out, though they probably both have great fishing. If money and time are the only reasons preventing me from going, then...

I'm a sucker for small stream fishing, especially if it is remote. Most of my fishing locally is in small streams for both warm and coldwater species, even though big rivers and reservoirs are available to me. For my small stream fix I would look in the Rocky Mountains anywhere from New Mexico to Alaska. I would be okay in the Sierra's too.

I've never fished an alpine lake, and they are intriguing. I'd love to do that in the High Uintas Wilderness of Utah on a weeklong backpacking trip, but would be OK in Rocky Mountain National Park, the High Sierras, or the Wind Rivers.

My lifetime catch (spin and fly) in saltwater is still currently 0. I'd love to change that, preferably in a warm ocean somewhere, although the North Carolina Outer Banks would count in the summer, as would the Gulf Coast most of the year, or Florida and the Caribbean anytime. But given my past track record, I'd want to have a guide to increase my odds.

I do like the idea of fishing summer all year by switching hemispheres, although that is really the only draw for me to want to go to NZ versus the US Mountain West.

I'd also like to have a bass/bluegill/catfish pond on my own property. I have the place all picked out...

[Jayatwork]

New Zealand
Christmas Island
Alaska

[desertman]

My New Year resolution for the past four years has been "to fish new waters, and fish with someone that I have not fished with". That said I would like to fish the St. Joe river in Idaho, or the Pot Holes in Washington. There are enough places in the Northwest that I have yet to fish that I have no desire to go tropical.
Merry Christmas all!!

[hap]

Steelhead alley trip swinging for chrome
Driftless area to wander little blue lines
Wyoming.....
Guadalupe river in TX for Guadalupe bass and cichlids
South Florida for exotics
Alaska for gigantic grayling
Mississippi for big slab crappie, bluegill, and shellcracker
Arkansas or Missouri for small stream native smallmouth

You know... I think I know this guy... that knows this guy... that may be able to help you for less than you can imagine...

[BigDan]

My dream destinations include New Zealand, Patagonia, and Labrador. If I had to pick just one.... I'd go with Labrador