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=Meola+Park,+Meola+Road,+Auckland&hl=en&ll=-36.848788,174.7124&spn=0.04904,0.076818&sll=-41.244772,172.617188&sspn=46.792022,78.662109&oq=meola&vpsrc=6&hq=Meola+Park,&hnear=Meola+Rd,+Auckland+1022,+Auckland&t=h&z=14
How far do you travel to fish your local Home water?
All the best.
Mike
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—
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.
Takes me about 20 minutes to get to one of my favorites.
20 minutes to three, an hour to two more.
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.
I don’t call anything my “home water”. I go where I feel like going and that can be a pond, lake, stream or river. But the closest I’d call a “home water” would be the Little Red river in Arkansas and that is like 3.5 hours away. Many choices much closer for other fish.
For trout, my “home” water is 50 miles away. Lots of bass ponds and smallmouth creeks closer. For saltwater, closest water I fish without a boat is 85 miles.
Regards,
Scott
About 20 miles to
About 20 minutes on foot or 5 minutes by car to the Nisqually River that holds resident Cutthroat all year, a nice fall run of Sea Run Cutthroat, a fall/winter run of Salmon and once in a while a steelhead takes a wrong turn and winds up in my home waters.
17 miles to the closest trout water I would call home. Anything farther away isn’t what I would call home water. Once you drive past one of your fishing holes, the “home” part gets a little hard to justify in my mind.
Well I think for most of us it looks like we have to burn a fair bit of Gas to go fishing!
Interesting replies, thanks.
All the best.
Mike
In the summer, as a crow flies, I have to walk all of 20 feet to some really fine trout fishing on the Yellowstone River. Many evenings find me fishing there for the last 20-30 minutes of the day, until half past dark. That’s my shortest distance to the river, but for variety I also fish another 100 miles (and more) up and down the Yellowstone.
Across the road from work. Across the road from home. I do spend more time up the river further.Some Atlantics below home ,but mostly fish Browns and Brookies are up where it narrows up a little. Of course a lot of them go past here, to get where I fish them
Peter
3 blocks to my favorite public pond (10 minutes on foot). 3 blocks in another direction to a second pond. Within 5 blocks of that pond is another 7 public ponds. Nearest river is about 15-20 minutes away by car, as is a large reservoir and 800+ acre lake.
“Is this Heaven?”
“No. Its Iowa”.
Using/ stealing sagefisher’s definition " Home is where…," mine is about 1400 miles from my (other) home, and I have absolutely NO problem “suffering” ( includes, among many other points if interest , stopping in Austin MN for a SPAM sammich and in Story WY for…) those 1400 miles each year in late September or early October. My signature below is NOT just a passing thought,I MEAN IT.
Mark
10 miles to the Duck River and 20 Miles to the Elk River.
My traditional “home” water is about 110 feet from my back door. I just wheel my kayak down in the evenings when the weather permits. If I want to go trout fishing it’s anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours if I go to the mountains.
Jim Smith
There is a small, warm water river about 15 minutes from me. I’ve fished it for over 40 years. It changes a bit with each, heavy rain. For trout the trip my home waters is about 2 hours.
Ed
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)
