Best States for Fishing

Vilas county has the highest concentration of fresh water lakes in the world. I love it.

Wisconsin counts lakes as 4 acres or bigger. Minnesota counts lakes ten acres or bigger. That's why Wisconsin claims more lakes than Minnesota.

15,000 lakes, don't understand what Minnesota is so proud of.

I live here and I go fishing a lot

Best place to fish.

Few places can an angler catch a largemouth, speckled trout, and redfish from the same spot, with the same lure. Venice, LA is one of those places. Further, within 20 minutes from Venice, you can be on the blue water catching tuna, dolphin, wahoo, amberjack, etc., etc.

As far as number of species of fish that the angler may legitimately chase, no state beats Florida.

Most definitely crappie I caught a 3-4 lb crappie so unreal, I live in Newport Arkansas and You can tare the bass, crappie, and catfish up.

I haved fished in many different states, but Arkansas still remains my top destination for freshwater fishing. You just can't beat the quality of bass and catfish found in the natural state!

There is more fish

I have been to Montana and it is gorgeous. Now head east to the largest protected wilderness in the lower 48 states. 6.1 million acres, 7000 lakes and ponds, 71.000 miles of rivers and stream loaded with trout and alpine views beyond anything you may have seen before and trout fishing as good as it gets. Some lakes, named can only be reached by bush plane. Guess what state? New York. And then there are the Catskills with legendary trout waters named Beavekill, Esopus, Neversink, Batinkill, East and West Branch of the Delaware river all legendary fly fishing waters.

Montana is by far #1. Fishing Montana's rivers is epic in every sense of the word. It's scenery also surpasses any state by far.

Best flyfishing States besides alaska

That's not true Tennessee has amazing fishing at my uncles he has a river in his back yard and there's tons of walleye and trout.

Tennessee holds 14 of the 25 biggest Smallmouth Bass, the World Record Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Skipjack, and Drum. Some of the biggest Catfish, Striped Bass, Smallmouth bass, and Crappie are caught in TN. We have dozens of major Bass lakes and Trout rivers. Tn is one of the best fishing lakes in the country.

We have a lot of great fishing spots. Lots of trout and bass. Especially catfish.

Don't forget the rivers the Missouri, Mississippi, Osage, Des Moines, Platte, Grand, St. Francis, and much more.

there is also tons of lakes such as Lake of the Ozarks, Harry S. Truman Res., Mark Twain Lake, Stokton Lake, Table Rock Lake, Smithville Lake, and so much more.

I agree. I fish the finger lakes and have caught at least one 20 pounder each year, 15 lb rainbows, brown trout approaching 30 lbs. The world record muskie (69 lbs,11 ozs) and norther pike (49 lbs 10 ozs) caught in NY. The 1,000 island in the St.Lawrence river is perhaps the best bass fishing on the planet (world record muskie caught here) and trout, salmon, walleyes are extremely abundant. The largest protected wilderness in the US lower 48 is the 6,1 million acre Adirondack Mountain and Forest preserve in the north county. Here is some of the finest trout fishing on the planet. You even fly in to some of the numbers named lakes only accessible this way and catch trout that may have never seen a fisherman. And no on has even mentions the Catskill region with the Neversink, Beavekill, Esopius as legendary trout streams. But I rank the largest of the Finger Lakes, Seneca 35 miles long, 3 1/2 miles wide and depths reaching 800 ft as the greatest trout water on the planet. There are days that running a christmas tree rig ( 5 spoons) when you can't get a second spoon on and you are hauling in a lake trout. The conversation department recently did a lake survey of the fish health and set some gill nets in off of Sampson Park. Thay came up with a lake trout over 80 lbs. Come over to New York folks where the rumor that the state is all concrete is false. Get rid of NY city and you have the wildest and mountaines state east of the Rockies.

In my opinion NY should be much higher than 20, we got the finger lakes (world renowned for Lake trout), Lake Eire (wold renowned for Lake trout, wellie, perch, and bass with its tributaries known for Steel-head and Catfish), Lake Ontario and all of its tributaries (world renowned for Salmon, Steel-head and brown trout, especially the salmon river), the Niagra river (world renowned for Muskie above the falls, and salmon and trout below the falls), Lake Champlain (world renowned for bass and pan-fish), the Adirondacks (with thousands of lakes ponds and streams with a wide variety of fish and some of the finest Native brook trout fishing in the world), The St. Lawrence river in the north (world renowned for Muskie and bass) The Allegheny river in the southwest corner (Excellent fishing for wallies, pike and muskie, with it tributaries known for trout), and the Hudson river in the southeast (world renowned for striped bass, also know for pike and black bass). Overall NY is extremely divers and offers some of the finest fishing in the world for a wide variety of spices.

Look at the records by state. NY is at or near the top for all the best fish. Salmon, pike, trout, muskie, pretty much everything except largemouth. Lake Ontario and salmon river amazing