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New York => Ice Fishing New York => Topic started by: Raquettedacker on Oct 15, 2009, 05:19 PM
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I think New York has more species of fish to fish for. What do you think? ;D ;D
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Sorry to steal your thread but the best opportunities are not in a state but a province....ontario
Bay of quinte is a world famous walleye hotspot
lake Simcoe is a world famous perch fishery
not to mention in my small section of Ontario there is over 90 lakes in a two hour radious
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No problem icejunky. Just an opinion poll. Every ones opinion counts.. ;D ;D Just dont let the Maine guys hear you say that.. ;D ;D ;D
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MICHIGAN - it has over 11000 lakes not to mention the Great Lakes. WE HAVE IT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!
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New York :thumbsup:
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wisconsin, cuz ive never ice fished in any other state ;D
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MICHIGAN - it has over 11000 lakes not to mention the Great Lakes. WE HAVE IT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!
I lived in Michigan for a few years and dont ever remember catching a trout through the ice.
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I lived in Michigan for a few years and dont ever remember catching a trout through the ice.
well you fished the wrong spots then buddy!!....
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Minnesota or Wisconsin i'd say. Iowa water is just plain scuzzy. Very few lakes that dont suffer from siltation and farm/nutrient runoff.
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i would say that ny has more spieces to fish for than most states even though some states may have more available water to fish
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Another one here that hasn't ventured too far from home. I do love the diverse fisheries we have available in NY though. If we're talking icefishing opportunities though I'd have to say some of the canadian provinces and territories. That drifter dude was still ice fishing when most of us were getting our swimming trunks out
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I'm glad that I live in NY for its fishing opportunities and for many other reasons, but I won't pretend that it has the best fishing of any state or province. OVERALL, how can any place compete with what Alaska or most of Canada has to offer.
A lot of lakes does not great fishing make. NY has millions of people harvesting fish from its waters. Most of the ponds and lakes in what should have the best fishing, the Adirondacks, have been wiped out by acid rain. The pictures posted on here tell the story. The guys posting 30# pike pics from Manitoba don't understand what all the fuss is about, yet a 20# pike from NY is pretty big news. I have never heard of a Canadian paying to take a freshwater fishing trip in the US, but all hardcore American fishermen seem to have a Canada trip on their TO DO list. That's all you need to know.
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MN is better because I live here. ;D
MN seems to be icefishing capitol USA when it comes to derbies, events, and we always have the new stuff first. I think the industry caters to us a little more than states outside of the upper midwest.
We dont have much for real lake trout fisheries, but we make up for it in huge pike and walleye. The panfish lakes can be phenominal too.
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this is way to broad, every state has its goods and bads. its hard to say but for me pa does produce some nice bass in the winter months!!
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NY has some great fishing in the winter, but as an honest opinion I would have to say one of the provinces of Canada would win if you put any actual stats into play.
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Not saying we have the best, but this is a few of what we have to fish for.
Native brook trout
Lake trout/togue
Salmon
Brown Trout
Rainbow trout
Splake
Blueback trout
LM bass
SM bass
Pike
Pickerel
Muskie
Stripped bass
White/ yellow perch
Sunfish/panfish
Crappie
Horn pout
Eel
Various chubs
Suckers
and a bunch of other junk/baitfish.
+ all the salt water fish which i'm not good at naming.
And i'm sure I forgot a few
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a toss up between NH and ME ! NH in my opinion has better management and conservation in my opinion ;)
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Not saying we have the best, but this is a few of what we have to fish for.
Native brook trout
Lake trout/togue
Salmon
Brown Trout
Rainbow trout
Splake
Blueback trout
LM bass
SM bass
Pike
Pickerel
Muskie
Stripped bass
White/ yellow perch
Sunfish/panfish
Crappie
Horn pout
Eel
Various chubs
Suckers
and a bunch of other junk/baitfish.
+ all the salt water fish which i'm not good at naming.
And i'm sure I forgot a few
We have all of those except Blueback Trout and Hornpout wich I think is just a catfish. We also have 3 different kind of salmon.. Some of the best salt water fishing on the East coast is off the tip of Long Island. We can catch stripers all the way up the Hudson River in Albany. ;D ;D ;) ;)
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he missed alot on the list to though, but the question is the best ice fishing oppertunities lets exclude the saltwater , out of curiousity do you have whitefish there? or tiger trout? carp?
NY and any state bordering a great lake should be some of the best ice fishing also , i would love to live next to champlain. but i do like the ocean alot to
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Not sure about them Tiger Trout. The other ones, sure we do.
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they throw them in a few lakes in NH and MA i would think ME has them also, there pretty neat looking fish.
there was even albino trout caught in a pond down the road from me. now thats a weird looking trout ;)
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I just looked them up, they are pretty cool...
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I'd have to say Ontario has everyone beat in terms of diversity and length of season on the ice.
Minnesota is great too, but as mentioned, the trout fisheries really don't touch those of most Northeastern states... And while Wyoming and Idaho rule- it's mainly trout and not much else... They hate pike there.
And states like Colorado actually have BOUNTIES on Northerns to kill 'em off.
Alaska, by the way, is pretty weak... I lived there in the Interior and can tell you the fishing opportunites are not what you think- unless you like lots of 2lb grayling. The coastal runs of salmon are great- but that ain't ice fishing!
No doubt New York can hold it's own too though...
As for most lakes to choose from in the smallest area, the FIVE THOUSAND waterbodies in the Adirondack Park pretty much blows everything else away. Comments regarding "most" of the lakes being dead from acid rain must have come from 1983 or something. The western slope (Old Forge) got hammered back in the day, but it sure wasn't a total loss!
Also- for the record "Lake Tear of the Clouds" on Mount Marcy in New York froze up this week! Won't be long now!
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Also- New York has plenty of Tiger Trout... Lots of them, actually.
You just have to seek them out and do some homework.
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/NeversinkJimmy/Tiger.jpg)
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(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/kissmybassnh/trousertrout-1.jpg)
We even have the elusive "One Eyed Trouser Trout" this guy from Maine caught one in NH lol :roflmao:
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Lake Tear, the beginning of the mighty Hudson River. Most people don't realize the amount of water in the Adirondack Mt's..Let alone the fish.
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Thanks for the Tiger Trout picture Jimmy................. ......... Still love your avitar pict. also.. ;D
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new york by far allot of different species in many lakes and had allot of large fish caught thru the ice this past winter
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Nice post Jimmy about our beloved 'daks. SShhh guys. They're all going to come cramp us up on the lakes. kidding
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Naa, we have nothing here they want Acid rain , garbage fish(perch) ,New York city.Maybe we should all go to Maine.... ;D ;D
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I will always be grateful for the good fishing that I enjoy in NY, and considering that NY is a great place to live for so many other reasons, that makes this fact even more appealing. That said, I would love to take an ice-fishing vacation to some of those lakes in Manitoba where our Canadian friends post their pics from. I would love to have one of their " average " days of icing 3 pike over 20 pounds.
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New York :thumbsup:
hey toddyrotten....what it that pic you have in yer signature....farthest one to the right......what the hell is that thing????? cant see it welll, can you post a better pic?
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It's 300lb red squirrel.
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New IgSa Certified World Record-> International Giant Squirrel Association
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I guess you really have to watch your nuts in that neck of the woods.
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Big squirrels, big fish, we have it all in New York. ;D ;D
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I joke about moving to Maine or someplace north for ealier ice. Honestly though, I wouldn't trade the area in for anything in the world. We can fish one lake and catch every species you could see in the Maine threads. And there are many bodies of water that have everything to offer. All joking aside for just one post, I love it here. Man, Some of us should get paid for marketing tourism in NY.
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Maine got the best fishing.
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Indiana has the best all around Ice Fishing challenges around, You never know if the ice is thick enough
so that alone adds to the excitement!!
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Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.
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Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.
Oh snap! You gonna get a war started.
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In wisconsin we have available for ice fishing-
Trout/Salmon:
Browns
Brookies
Rainbows/Steelhead
Lakers
Splake
Coho
Kings
Probably a couple other hybrids I can't remember
Panfish:
Black & White Crappie
Bluegill & Pumpkinseed
Yellow Perch (Whites are here but considered invasive and therefore evil)
White & Yellow Bass
Larger Gamefish:
Pike
Musky (only early ice if it shows up in time, musky season ends early)
Tiger Musky (hybrid, same rules as regulars, more or less)
Walleye
Sauger
Saugeye
Lake Sturgeon (special spearing season only)
Large and Small mouth bass
Other fish:
Eelpout
Carp
Smelt
Memory isn't treating too well, I'm sure I've forgotten about others that aren't listed here.
Probably the best known fishing opportunity in Wisconsin is the Lake Sturgeon spearing season that takes place on the Winnebago lake system. Thousands of peole get their darkhouses out there to find those 175+lb sturgeon. Season lasts maybe a week or 2 at most, have to register fish like they are deer.... it's a big deal in the area. I've never tried it, mostly because I have no experience spearing and don't know anyone directly who does, but some day I'm gonna get in on the circus on Winnebago.
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Who can count the lakes, rivers, ponds and streams in NY? Fishing is where you find it. What I know is, in my more than 50 years of fishing NY, I haven't touched 2% of the available fishery.
I live in the Finger Lakes region. From my house, in an hour or less, my boat can be in Lake Ontario, Cayuga, Seneca, Canandaigua, Honeoye, Conesus, Braddock's Bay, Irondequoit Bay, Sodus Bay, Port Bay, the Erie canal, Cross lake or the Genesee, Oak Orchard or Seneca Rivers. If I want to drive another half hour I can hit Keuka. Another half hour and I can be on Oneida, Fair Haven, the Oswego or Niagara Rivers.
I can't even get into the number of high quality streams I can fish within 2 hours of home and the secret ponds I know will remain just that. I'll stay right here in NY, thank you. Does it have problems? Yes! So does every other state.
To paraphrase Norman Maclean, I am unwilling to leave the waters I have not fished.
RG
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I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala :clap:
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If we're talking icefishing opportunities though I'd have to say some of the canadian provinces and territories.
Wise man ;D
I'd have to say northern Yukon Territory with their 7 months of ice season has us here in northern BC beat. But I do get to fish 2 minutes out my back door.
Thousands of international fishing tourists can't be wrong ;D
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I would bet the Erie Canal, Mohawk River system alone has more species of fish than most states. Bass, Tiger musky, Trout, BIG BIG Catfish,Crappie, all the pan fish ,Sturgeon, pike, big drum, so on and so on. Most people think its just a big sess pool, but the state has no
restrictions on eating fish from it. Oh ya and this body of water is, what, 450 or 500 miles long...
Dem Mainers aint gots nutting on us.. ::) ;D ::) ;D ::) ;D
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Apparently Main got to work on thier english classes.
LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.
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I Like Maine, we dont have to deal with many crowds.
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I've hiked into Adirondack ponds and fished for Brookies all weekend and never saw another person...or fished the Mohawk all day and never ran into any fishermen. Cant beat NY.... ;D ;D ;D
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I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala :clap:
European pike grow much larger than ours, I would like to fish Scandinavia! It is one of my dreams to fish Europe. I have a good friend from Sweden, and her husband is from Holland. They say that enough of the population speaks English for me to get by without learning a new language.
Someday, when I have more money than I have time to spend it. Until then, I will just have to fish the Land of Sky Blue Waters. ;)
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How about them German Browns...That would be fun.. I would give up a day on the ice in NY to come up and fish with you Skipper..
The closest Ive been to Mn. is when I could see it from a mt. top when I was on Isle Royale..
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;D
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ANYONE GET THE NEW FIELD AND STREAM????....NEW WORLD RECORD BROWN TROUT IN MICHIGAN!!!!!.....GO TEAM MICHIGAN!!!!!!
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I will have to weigh in for the country I live in. We have 187,888 lakes over here. And really Finland isn't really a large country. And, it really goes with out saying but I will say it anyway, home of Rapala :clap:
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Catfish, you have to post some pictures of the fish you catch over there...
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I have fished alot of states and I have to say the most productive of size is
Alaska
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LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.
Um? ??? Never mind...
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nobody likes my trouser trout pic? :whistle:
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Well, Mass doesn't have many walleye to speak of(I've never caught a walleye through the ice >:( )....so I agree with Ice Junky. I've always wanted to fish the Bay of Quinte. NW Territories have some tremendous Pike, Laker and Walleye fishing as well. Tough choice. Seeing NY is close I'll take NY all day long over MA in the way of big sportfish like Walleye, Pike and Lake Trout though. Heck in MA we don't have a lake to fish for Lake Trout "through the ice"...or many for Walleye for that matter. Not the best pike fishery either. I know some guys do pretty well, but I'm talking about the # of lakes and the volume of pike in the waters here. We are a put and take trout state which sucks! I'd rather see more pike stocking in some of the waters around here rather than trout.
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nobody likes my trouser trout pic? :whistle:
I got a kick out of it. Was that a real newspaper artical?
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I've only ice fished in Ny so i can't speak from any kind of experience elsewhere, but from being on this site over the years and seeing what other states have to offer I'd really have to say the Northeast as a whole is where it's at. Sure canada has some famous waters, but frig I'd be willing to bet half the reason there so good is lack of fishing pressure, add in that it's a 100 below out most days and you need an extension for your auger to get through the ice and well it doesn't sound all that fun. I ve been out to the land a 10,000 lakes, and well, here in the Northeast we don't call 2 foot deep 5 acre ponds lakes. Throw a dart at a topo map of NY sometime it is truly unbelievable the amount of water there is and i live right smack dab in the middle of it. One could not in there entire lifetime fish half of it, I'd love to try but I am perfectly content with trying to get on the 100 or so that are within a 2 hr drive of me. Look at the DACKS !!!! You can't drive 5 miles without going by a lake !!!!
There is great fishing all around the country, and a lot of it is in our backyard..
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LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.
That was the joke dude, the mistakes are taken from previous posts and other threads. Not to quick on the trigger where you're from I guess.
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I got a kick out of it. Was that a real newspaper artical?
yeah i cant belive the person actually wrote that in the paper and it never got edited, i think it was some stupid lady and she actually belived him
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I've got to remember that incase I'm ever interviewed. That's great it made the paper..
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Here in NY State we are the gateway for all the exotic invasive species of fish! >:(
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Ladies and gentlemen- I present to you, the Round Goby... Enjoy.
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There are over 2,300 lakes and ponds, 200 lakes of at least one square mile in area, 1,500 miles of rivers, 30,000 miles of brooks and streams in the Adirondacks. Whats that old saying? I love NY!
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Did anyone say New Jersey ..just kidding ;D the only good fishing is done on private lakes and you have to know some one!! even Greenwood and Hopatcong have very little public access and you guys north and west of us are very lucky... :)
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new york has plenty enough ice up north, and little enough down here to challenge any tastes. :P :o ;D
With more than 7,500 lakes and ponds, 50,000 miles of rivers and streams, and hundreds of miles of coastline, New York State has some of the finest fishing in the country.
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LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.
i think he was making a sarcastic point bud...to make him look worse
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WNY ;)
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Adirondacks.... ;D ;D ;D
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I think that the ice fishing opportunities in Maine and NY are pretty similar, though perch and panfishing is taken a lot more seriously in NY.
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Welcome to the site mainer in ny.. ;D
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Not saying we have the best, but this is a few of what we have to fish for.
Native brook trout
Lake trout/togue
Salmon
Brown Trout
Rainbow trout
Splake
Blueback trout
LM bass
SM bass
Pike
Pickerel
Muskie
Stripped bass
White/ yellow perch
Sunfish/panfish
Crappie
Horn pout
Eel
Various chubs
Suckers
and a bunch of other junk/baitfish.
+ all the salt water fish which i'm not good at naming.
And i'm sure I forgot a few
Oneida and ontario have just about all these species you have listed.and thats only two of our lakes...oneida alone has over 50 species...sorry maine folk other than your lobsters we got it to....there are a bunch of different strainsof brookies also native sure are mostly from NY waters
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I love Ny ( .... well the ice fishing at least)
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I'm glad that I live in NY for its fishing opportunities and for many other reasons, but I won't pretend that it has the best fishing of any state or province. OVERALL, how can any place compete with what Alaska or most of Canada has to offer.
A lot of lakes does not great fishing make. NY has millions of people harvesting fish from its waters. Most of the ponds and lakes in what should have the best fishing, the Adirondacks, have been wiped out by acid rain. The pictures posted on here tell the story. The guys posting 30# pike pics from Manitoba don't understand what all the fuss is about, yet a 20# pike from NY is pretty big news. I have never heard of a Canadian paying to take a freshwater fishing trip in the US, but all hardcore American fishermen seem to have a Canada trip on their TO DO list. That's all you need to know.
Well said defuller, I never thought of it that way before, but how many sporting camps have you seen on the Hudson River booked up with Canadian fishermen ;D