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Right, some will "vote" merely on whether there's access to the ocean, and that's the end of it. A real fisherman enjoys different fish, different styles, different topography, new challenges. Fly fishing tiny streams in the Driftless for trout? Such an incredibly different vibe from trolling the ocean or one of the Great Lakes. Catching muskie on a peaceful northwoods lake? Catfish on the Mississippi? What about the cost and set-up vs dropping a line in on the shore or from a canoe? Or the surrounding scenery? Sure, there's incredible biodiversity in the ocean, but there's far more fishing diversity in a state like Wisconsin (or MI or NY etc) than a state with a small strip of ocean and little else to offer the fisherman.
No, I'm comparing Great Lakes fishing (Superior and Michigan), Mississippi River fishing, Driftless trout streams, thousands of inland lakes and rivers, and so on, to a state with a small chunk of ocean shoreline.
Well, with a boat, someone in DE can venture further out and have better fishing opportunities(species wise/numbers of fish) than the entire Great Lakes area. Plus wintertime, the GL are frozen, where do you fish?
Move down to the Gulf coast or SouthEast..plenty of good fishing.
And if I wanted, I could go to the ocean from the Great Lakes - they are connected via the St Lawrence Seaway, you know? This is about reasonable fishing within state borders (actually, NEAR A PARTICULAR CITY), not eventually connecting to Africa via the ocean, which as mentioned, I can do as well.
In the winter, people keep fishing. It's done year-round here. I can tell you don't have much experience with the Upper Midwest.
And if I wanted, I could go to the ocean from the Great Lakes - they are connected via the St Lawrence Seaway, you know? This is about reasonable fishing within state borders (actually, NEAR A PARTICULAR CITY), not eventually connecting to Africa via the ocean, which as mentioned, I can do as well.
In the winter, people keep fishing. It's done year-round here. I can tell you don't have much experience with the Upper Midwest.
You can go to the Atlantic ocean from the Milwaukee area/Great lakes with a boat? In how many days?
Ok I'm moving somewhere by the Great Lakes since the fishing is better than the Atlantic.
I don't even live in DE but I'll defend it as it has the whole western shore of the DE bay as well. And I'm not knocking wisconsin or the great lakes as I've never been.
But I live in a similar small state as DE and that is MD. Yes, we only have about 30 miles of coast and about 20 of those are barren beach in a state park and national seashore, but there is surf fishing there, but in my opinion it is overshadowed by the best surf fishing in the world a few hours south on Hatteras Island in NC. Even the VA barrier islands, about 1 hour from my house has some incredible surf fishing for trophy red drum.
We shine in our offshore fishing for pelagics such as marlin, tuna and dolphin (mahi mahi). There are a few offshore canyons in which we regularly fish and several of the mid ones off DelMarVa will have boats fishing from Cape May, NJ to VA Beach right among each other. And for those who think that is not very popular fishing and that only a few do it, there are days in which I have counted over 100 boats nearby. And that is only one section. We have a tournament coming up in a couple of weeks which at it's peak had over 400 boats entered in it. It costs more then 20 grand to enter across the board and that is not including cost of actual fishing. In fact, here in Ocean City, MD we will have boats coming from as far away as Texas to fish this thing and some will stay into early October to take part in the incredible white marlin fishing we have off this tiny bit of Atlantic coast.
Plenty of inshore fishing ranging from good to excellent for fish such as Striped Bass, Blue Fish, Grey Trout, Speckled Trout, Red Drum, Black Drum, Flounder, Spot, Croaker, Sea Bass, tautog and many others. You may think of salt water as just a coast line and the ocean but it includes the Chesapeake bay plus all the coastal bays and rivers which are a breeding ground for a lot of these species. And where the water turns brackish and then to fresh, There is good fishing for largemouth bass, channel cats, blue cats, bluegills, crappies and assorted others.
And there are plenty of places where you can fish in quiet solitude as well (other then the squawk of a blue heron) and be far away from anywhere in any of the coves of the many bays or in the winding, still rivers of a salt marsh casting saltwater flies (if fly fishing is your thing) to sea trout and small red drum. This is here on MD's eastern shore which is not much different then DE or eastern VA.
That is why, as this thread was mentioning city, that I will still stick to our neighbors in VA beach as that area has everything I just mentioned as well but the offshore tuna season can go through the winter and so can the trout fishing as well to add to the striped bass.
There are more fish in the oceans, bigger fish (meaning longer fighting times), and tastier fish (you can say this is subjective..). I don't know how someone in their right mind can claim fishing in the great lakes is better or even comparable to fishing in the Atlantic.
There are more fish in the oceans, bigger fish (meaning longer fighting times), and tastier fish (you can say this is subjective..). I don't know how someone in their right mind can claim fishing in the great lakes is better or even comparable to fishing in the Atlantic.
Yea, fishing was pretty slow today off Ocean City, MD. We boxed about 30 nice sea bass, about 25 blue line tile fish, a handful of dolphin (Mahi Mahi) and saw 2 or 3 white marlin. The fleet was complaining because the fishing has slowed down quite a bit, but the marlin bite is decent for the time of year.
Yea, fishing was pretty slow today off Ocean City, MD. We boxed about 30 nice sea bass, about 25 blue line tile fish, a handful of dolphin (Mahi Mahi) and saw 2 or 3 white marlin. The fleet was complaining because the fishing has slowed down quite a bit, but the marlin bite is decent for the time of year.
Lol. Yes, the southeastern U.S. Is definitely king for fishing diversity and Pelagics. Outside of that, CA, specifically SoCal, has some great year round ocean fishing as well. One fish count I just read for today nabbed 41 Yellowfin Tuna, 7 Bluefin Tuna, 9 Yellowtail and 2 Dorado (Mahi Mahi). Just under 30 anglers.
Yea, fishing was pretty slow today off Ocean City, MD. We boxed about 30 nice sea bass, about 25 blue line tile fish, a handful of dolphin (Mahi Mahi) and saw 2 or 3 white marlin. The fleet was complaining because the fishing has slowed down quite a bit, but the marlin bite is decent for the time of year.
that is amazing, I would love to catch any one of those fish.
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