California Delta

Not much I can contribute for largemouth in the northeast but everyone should fish Cape Cod for saltwater striped bass at least once in their life

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, has some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the world.

The St. Lawerence river is pretty amazing

Lake st Clair , Michigan. Smallmouth fishery is dynamite.

1. Any water that’s posted
2. Saddam Hussein‘s ponds
3. Any state park that says I can’t (I pay for them, why can’t I fish?)
4. Any Place that is on my way to work
5. That place that everybody used to have access too but everybody found out about it and trashed it so nobody can fish there.

Lake Ontario, Cayuga, Dworshak, OH Ivie, Clear lake

Yes, the Champion always has water. No city drains out for their supply. Nice lake. I fish a few times a year.

Lake St. Clair, OH Ivie, lake fork, mille lacs, clear lake.

Best i have fished = st lawrence river, lake ontario, lake erie, stick marsh/fellsmere

Dale Hollow in North Central Tennessee. Best Smallmouth fishing in the southeast from November thru March.

Somewhere other than Florida maybe?

Dont mind the heat or gatoss, just not interested in it

Florida if you can tolerate the heat, crazy people, and gators.

Find you some warm water off chutes from Power plants.

SoCal and Texas have some huge bass too if you want to stay out west

The farther south you get the bigger the bass are you are going to find. Average bass for me in Michigan is prly 2-4 lbs go to Florida and it’s prly 3-6

Any water you find has bass.

Lake Talquin and Lake Seminole will be on your path through North Florida.

Every year my extended family and I go to lake Guntersville to fish for a week. I don't know what they offer to rent but I think they do tours. Huntersville tackle and outdoors is a shop right on the lake.

Lake Guntersville, Alabama

I fish the same as you in North Carolina. The beautiful thing about fishing the south is you can always find bass. You can hit a stream and catch 20 1lb largemouth. Or you can get a guide and go chase the big ladies on a big lake. And then there's everything in between.

Also you will be in western NC it seems. If you have any interest in trout fishing, that is a great place to get a guided trip on foot or by boat to catch brown or brook trout.

Don't forget about chasing big panfish and crappies. Maybe try fishing for "my fish" or bowfin. Chasing big kitties on a river down in the South would be another great experience. Especially if you wanna catch something giant.

Good luck!! Enjoy your stay. It's a beautiful place.

Fucking ALL of it. Pick a lake, any lake. The whole area you're traveling has monster bass fishing available. This could almost be an old Bassmaster Elite Series trail.

You can literally catch bass in the sewer here in Georgia.

Yeah pretty much any fresh water you see has bass in it! If your staying in town I’m sure you can find some pretty cool urban places to find some largies!

Bienville Plantation in Northern FL has excellent bass fishing, it's a guided trip only kind of place (private lakes) with on site lodging and food. I really enjoyed the two days I fished there, one day caught like 30 something bass. My dad and I both caught our PBs (at the time) there. We fished with a guide called Riley who was a hoot and put us on the fish!

I am biased for Michigan and lake St Clair but for smallies wallies and big pike you can't go wrong

Texas for sure if you’re looking for no crocs. Year round phatties

I love my little spot in Ontario. 10 minutes to a decent pond system with bass, pike, crappie, cats and monster carp and enough bluegill for them to eat. 15 minutes to Lake Erie where you can target the inner long point bay by kayak easily and now also get large trout and walleye. Less than a 5 minute walk from home is a very good rainbow/brown/king tributary off Lake Erie

I can drive 4 hours to Algonquin parks or the middle of wilderness somewhere and crown land camp and fish and nothing else. Not quite as far is lake simcoe for world class smallmouth

Love it

Edit; within 2 hours I can target musky or sturgeon as well

I still would argue that New York has some of the best bass fishing in the country, from a fellow New Yorker. However I would not recommend Florida, the lack of smallmouth bass is a big negative for me, and also the alligators don’t help. I heard good things about the Tennessee river system, especially Lake Chickamauga and doesn’t get as much attention as the fisheries in Texas or Florida, not to mention, they have good smallmouth bass fishing.

Texas. The fishing is good, and you can bass fish year round with no issues. It does slow down this time of year, but it’s not ice. However, upstate NY and Cali are pretty to look at compared to a lot of Texas. Like anything in life, there are pluses and minuses.

If we wanna get into politics, cost of living, and taxes, go for it. But there’s more too it than that. Better make sure you genuinely want to live somewhere else, property taxes here are nuts, and traditional conservative politics have been replaced with right wing lunacy. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Keewanaw peninsula, UP, michigan Or Northern Minnesota

Great temps, nice scenery, plenty of fish & many species (however the bass probably won't be hogs)

When do you want to travel? Do you have a boat? If not, will you rent a boat? Do you prefer smallies, largemouth, or both?

Two of my favorite lakes to travel to and fish are Lake Guntersville and Chickamauga.

Both are extremely popular lakes though, but for good reason they hold a ton of large bass can put together huge stringers.

It’s not as easy as it used to be with the pressure the lakes get, but if you go through the week it’s a lot better.

Also both areas are really set up well for traveling with a boat and accommodations supporting having a bass boat.

Chick was posting some huge bags for a while. Chick just doesn’t put up the catch numbers of Guntersville.

I had a guide on Guntersville once, $250 for one of the worst fuckings I’ve ever received. Never again will I hire a fishing guide especially on Guntersville. Bastards just used us a way to rule out where he was taking his big time client the next day.

Definitely do not recommend guides on Guntersville to anyone, as with a basic fishing knowledge, a little caution, and watching some YouTube videos and reading reports you won’t do any worse than with a guide. Plus their “top tier equipment” was a bunch of Walmart specials and some of the trashiest versions of gear.

Waste of money getting a guide on Guntersville.

There's a place called Bass Lake that might have exactly what you're looking for. I caught a Bootsy Collins out there last summer.

Bass Lake Jk I'm not sure

Download the app Fishbrain. The free option shows plenty. Scour the map and click on ponds/lakes one by one. Look under species and click Largemouth bass and then leaderboard.

This will show you the biggest fish caught and when. Really easy way to confirm whether or not a lake is fishable.

Some lakes within the Raleigh area have a ridiculous no bank fishing policy so keep that in mind.

My 9 year old snagged a nice one out of a tiny pond in Apex called Seagroves Farm

All of them. Pick one.

O. H. Ivie in Texas has been producing tanks Lake Fork is famous for giants but like most lakes it is fished heavily Florida is nice too because those neighborhood ponds and canals can hold giants but a lot of Florida lakes are very grassy and limits styles of fishing 🎣 I would love to go north and fish for big smallies 👍

I live in FL. You best chance is here simply because the amount of fish per body of water and the amount of water available. If you don't care how you catch them, a guide service that runs shiners is probably the easiest bet.

Headwaters in fellsmere Fl or one of the other lakes around that area with Capt. Tyler Woolcot. Capt. Brett Cannon would be one to look up in Texas for lake O.H. Ivie

I went down to fish Headwater Lake in January from md and it really is #1. I can send you the contact info for the guide that’s the best on that lake no questions asked if your get to seriously considering it. Probably been there longer than most any guide, has the newest gear all the latest tactics and just a great guy to hang with more than anything. I went alone, first guided trip and had a blast throwing glide and swimbaits with him. We never hooked a monster but that’s the deal only fishing half a day with those things. We did get 8 nice ones in about 6 hours which is insane considering the baits we threw. Yes it’s expensive but if your looking to treat yourself and learn a lot he’s 100% worth it and the lake is awesome. Hundreds of gators to get the full experience so don’t expect to go bank fishing there.

Oh ivie, Sam Rayburn, choke canyon, lake fork. All these are capable of producing 7,8,9 lb bass.

Somewhere south seems to be the key. I’m in Minnesota where the SM record is just over 8 lbs and the LM is almost 9. Where the record in Texas is 18 lbs and Florida is a little over 17 lbs.

The guys around here swear by Lake Fork.

I live near the water where one of MAs 15 ponders where caught (there were multiple). It’s incredibly hard to fish and very rare to catch something over 5 lbs

I know Lake Fork and OH Ivie down in Texas are known for producing lots of big bass.

I don't know much about bass fishing the other highland lakes (Marble Falls, LBJ, Buchanan, Inks Lake), but they're pretty and I'm sure bass live there! Ladybird Lake produces some big'ns, but if you're talking about taking a bass boat, then LBL is out (electric motors under 5hp only). In East Austin is Decker/Walter E. Long, which a lot of folks say has good fishing. Not very scenic. Georgetown and Granger are good for white bass, especially right now. I've heard good things about lakes Waco, Belton, and Stillhouse Hollow. Lake Whitney is right at 3hrs drive and is great for largies and striper. Kinda far, but it's a biiiig lake with a variety of environments.

Decker is one of the best in the area. Stillhouse and Belton can be fun and they hold small mouth too.

Lake Bastrop has some solid bass! It's nowhere near as pretty as the Highland Lakes, though.