Fresh or Salt (Page 2): Once again Mr. Samples comes through with the winning answer.

Tman Loc: Winston-Salem, NC

Once again Mr. Samples comes through with the winning answer.

OldBassGuy Loc: Temecula, CA

The thing about fishing in the ocean is that you are likely to see something you have never seen before in your life. That is truly appealing! Salt water offers bigger, better tasting and much longer fights which in my opinion is what we are all after.........the exitement and the chase.

Maineboyfishing Loc: Coastal Maine

OldBassGuy wrote:

The thing about fishing in the ocean is that you are likely to see something you have never seen before in your life. That is truly appealing! Salt water offers bigger, better tasting and much longer fights which in my opinion is what we are all after.........the exitement and the chase.

Couldn’t agree with you more

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Yellow perch vs. rock fish is like trying to decide between crushed almonds or pecans on a hot fudge Sunday. I would never turn either one down. Different but outstanding. As for salt vs. fresh fishing, be careful. It is all about location. I live in Blaine WA 5 min. from the boat ramp on the Strait of Georgia. It used to be great fishing here. I am looking forward to an annual trip to Idaho so I can catch some decent size fish.

fishrmans Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl

OldBassGuy wrote:

The thing about fishing in the ocean is that you are likely to see something you have never seen before in your life. That is truly appealing! Salt water offers bigger, better tasting and much longer fights which in my opinion is what we are all after.........the exitement and the chase.

As far as taste, I will take either one. Hard to beat baked northern pike or musky or pan fried walleye or perch or bluegill but Mahi mahi, grouper, red snapper, yellowtail, flounder, cobia and many more are just as great. I do agree though that the fight of salt water fish is much better. A 5 pound jack feels about like a 15 pound largemouth. Walleyes taste good but are lousy fighters. White bass and crappies and bluegill are good fighters for their size but a salt water fish of the same size is stronger. Anyway, most all of them are fun to catch and most all are great eating. And as you say, “ when you fish in salt water you never know what you will catch next”. Most every time I go out I catch something new.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bapabear wrote:

Yellow perch vs. rock fish is like trying to decide between crushed almonds or pecans on a hot fudge Sunday. I would never turn either one down. Different but outstanding. As for salt vs. fresh fishing, be careful. It is all about location. I live in Blaine WA 5 min. from the boat ramp on the Strait of Georgia. It used to be great fishing here. I am looking forward to an annual trip to Idaho so I can catch some decent size fish.

What kind of fish? I live in Idaho and can maybe give you some pointers. Not how but where. The bigger steelhead are on the Clearwater river and east of Riggins a ways on the Big salmon. Huge lakers in Payette lake. Like the ones Egghead catches, 30/40 pounders. World record jumbo perch in Cascade lake in Cascade Idaho. Two decent king salmon runs but highly regulated. Lots of great fishing in Idaho and you get to keep stuff if you want👍. Cascade lake has some 6/8 pound rainbows too and an occasional steelhead. You can keep a wild steelhead out of the lake because they’re considered just rainbows in the lakes. We caught one last winter thought the ice. 29 inches. Camaloop hybrids there that are better than steelhead with a 6 fish limit per day year round. We caught several over 5 pounds there this year.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Catfish hunter wrote:

What kind of fish. I live in Idaho and can maybe give you some pointers. Not how but where.

Thanks, I normally go to Cascade for perch, then CJ strike and fish bass and crappie in the spring. But this year we are going to Lake Pend Oreille. We are leaving on Friday. We will be At Pend Oreille Shores condo with a boat slip and 17 foot Klamath with downriggers and side planers, in Hope. Our target fish will be large trout and pike. We will probably fish for perch and crappie for a couple meals as we will be there a full week. Our biggest concern is wind. If it is to bad, we will have to search out a smaller body of water or bank fish. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

bapabear wrote:

Thanks, I normally go to Cascade for perch, then ... (show quote)

Gotcha. I live south of Riggins and haven’t been to Pend Oreille yet. Good luck and let’s us know how ya do.👍

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Will do. P.S. I love Cascade. Biggest perch I have ever caught. Nice motorhome campground as well.

JimCT Loc: Connecticut

Mostly fresh but living in CT both are easily accessible. I can fish for trout and sunfish 3 miles from my house so it’s an easy before after work thing. Better trout fishing is 25 minutes away. A bass lake is 25 minutes away and a great place to slip the yak into the water. Ocean is a n hour or more away. Problem there is we don’t get many keepers. The striped bass are mostly schoolies and for the most part bite at night as I get older staying up to 1:00 AM takes a lot of recovery time. Fluke are usually below legal as well . Do while enjoy it not much comes home to the table an I end up doing much more freshwater. That being said I am on vacation on the outer cape cod and did get two schoolies last night .

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

JimCT wrote:

Mostly fresh but living in CT both are easily acce... (show quote)

Sounds like great opportunities for outdoor fresh air anyway.👍

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Yep.

SBFishin

I was in Minnesota until I was 8 and learned to fish when I was 4 or so. Fell in love with it immediately. Then moved to Southern California and oh boy do I love ocean fishing. I worked on party boats for 5-6 years and have enjoyed it ever since. I have primarily fished shore or piers until now (I’m 50) and just bought my first boat. This has opened a whole new world. We saw bat rays, bait, dolphins and a thresher shark 🦈 jump out of the water. It was an incredible experience to share with my family and we found some structure and caught some rock cod as well. Not sure I will have a reason to go back to fresh water fishing. I’m hooked.

PierRat904 Loc: St. Augustine

Started out with fresh water Bass fishing. Moved to ocean and don't intend on going back.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

SBFishin wrote:

I was in Minnesota until I was 8 and learned to fi... (show quote)

Only way to go down there. Fresh water in SoCal sucks. Too many people all tryin to catch the same fish.