Hello guys,how many miles must You drive to be on your local river????????

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janotcastermans	Hello guys,how many miles must You drive to be on your local river????????		Lead	[-]
Posts: 173 09/03/2009 14:28	Tags : None Hello guys,you already know that I'm from Belgium and it is a small country. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometers (11,787 sq mi) and has a population of about 10.7 million.I have two rivers that I fish in Belgium,one is 80 miles from home and one is 38 miles from home.So when I leave home within 1.5 hour I'm ready to fish. My question is;how much time do you guys need to be on your local river and ready to fish???? Its nice to know something about my friends there over in the States,and in the other places of the world Best Greats to you all,Janot Last Edited By: janotcastermans 09/03/2009 14:39. Edited 3 times.
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pvansch1		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4754 09/03/2009 14:35 Moderator	Walking distance = 1/4 mile will get me in the water and into some fish. To go either up river or down river for better fishing 2 to 20 miles. Pete
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Northumberland		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 44 09/03/2009 14:48	hi, I climb over my garden fence, 250 meters and I am on the river Blyth, 20 mins to the Coquet, 35 mins. to the Tyne, 1hr 45 to the Tweed. 45 mins. to the Derwent. I am very fortunate to be in Northumberland, lots of good fishing up here. steve
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bobbeegee		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3018 09/03/2009 15:12	Janot, I have to travel at least an hour and a half to get into some good trout water. It's killing me! Bob "Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end." -Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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BigTJ		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 840 09/03/2009 15:14	0.022 miles to the Truckee, about 120 feet. Not bad, eh?
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Eric Peper		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 341 09/03/2009 16:41	About 12 miles to my favorite stretch of the Henry's Fork, 15 miles to a nice piece of the Madison, 28 miles to the Madison in Yellowstone Park, and about 35 miles ot the Firehole. EP
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nohackle		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 603 09/03/2009 16:55	Eric Peper wrote: About 12 miles to my favorite stretch of the Henry's Fork, 15 miles to a nice piece of the Madison, 28 miles to the Madison in Yellowstone Park, and about 35 miles ot the Firehole. EP yea, yea, yea,.........................I know, I know...........how's 4 miles to the milwaukee river there hot shot , top that!
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flyfishingpastor		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 277 09/03/2009 16:56	Janot; I live about 20 minutes from some superb Small Mouth Bass fishing here in Indiana. If we're talking about trout (which I love), it's pretty much 6+ hours or so to wild trout water in Michigan or Wisconsin. Pat "He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman." - Norman Maclean-A River Runs Through It
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nativebrownie		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 893 09/03/2009 17:04	About 30 minutes for pond and river smallies... about 90 minutes - 2 hours each way at least for any stream trout...(Agreed, Bob, it is a killer...). By daydreaming - a few moments - a good library keeps me sane... and waggeling cane helps relieve the jitters...
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docbluedevil		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 15 09/03/2009 17:55	I'm fortunate to have trout fishing right in town; in fact, I can be at stream side by walking less than a 1/4 mile. But part of a therapeutic, restorative day of fishing often involves getting out of town and driving through the gorgeous Colorado surroundings, engaging a friend in good conversation or just driving in silence alone.
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thegubster		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1675 09/03/2009 18:03	Hi Janot, With luck, traffic willing, I can be wet in around 1 1/2 hrs...75 miles or so. Nice looking bit of water you have out there and you're hanging onto a fine stick too. My little trout get a good workout from the locals and they aren't all that big but the training they put you through makes life interesting at times. I've been turning more to my lakes for "teeth" of late and the rivers for smallies. Be well out there and I hope this finds you enjoying yourself. Ol' Norling just came back from Alaska....the rascal! Jeremy.
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paxlev		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 846 09/03/2009 19:30	90.
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WINDKNOT	Beautiful	#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 75 09/03/2009 19:40	2minutes to Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish and (gasp) Carp, 10min to stocked trout and 18 min to wild brown trout. I'm 20min from Center City Philadelphia! With all the rain this year, I might just as well be 2 days away from Smallmouth Bass!!! Oh yeah, I almost forgot less than 4hours away from Bonefish!!!
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BlackHillsBill	Distant, But Never Far Away	#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3056 09/03/2009 19:41	It's 400 miles from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Spearfish Canyon, east to west. SD is one of those very wide prairie states of ours, you see, that was created when Thomas Jefferson moved some of the nation beyond the Mississippi and MIssouri Rivers. Even worse, I'm 990 miles away from the Henry's Fork in Idaho. I wish I could shrink distances as you have done so effectively in Belgium, Janot, and as others here at the Forum have also done. But all those miles make me more grateful for the fewer (especially as I grow older) and widely- spaced times when I do visit these places which I love to fish. And I fish them very frequently of course through recollection--through pleasant after-images they've left me to ponder. In fact, I did a little of that sort of fishing while I was reading your post. Thank you for it.
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tedgolden		#14	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2999 09/03/2009 20:22 Moderator	Less eloquently, 90.
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Alaric11		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8 09/03/2009 20:42	Belgium, lovely--- and good question. A Waloon? (if I may be so bold). For me saltwater fishing = 35 metres ---I live on tributary of the Choptank/ Chesapeake bay. Nearest trout water = 1hr 40 minute drive. My preferred water is about 4 hours away. I would like to be closer but I'm used to this from growing up in San Francisco area. I actually like caffeine fueled long drives that start at 0400 . I'm known to drive across country hitting different spots and ending up back in California. I love the little towns trapped in 1950 like Saratoga, Wyoming pictured below. So a drive isn't a bad thing for me---I like the time to think, listen to books on tape, and just to be 'on the road' to some isolated spot (like wild cuttthroats somewhere between Elko and the Utah line). Last Edited By: Alaric11 09/03/2009 21:04. Edited 1 time.
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geojasstef		#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 34 09/03/2009 21:32	About 224 miles or 3 1/2 hours to the Mainistee door to river a little less to the Ausable...sometimes I will just go for a day trip.........so thats a 500 mile trip..... I think its worth it...........
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8xtippet		#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 76 09/03/2009 21:55	I'm 5 minutes from my local warm water river, but 45 minutes from my nearest trout waters. No big deal, really. Dave
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creakycane		#18	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2324 09/03/2009 22:14	Good trout water? - 106 miles to my favorite pool; about 1hr 53 mins. My car might be able to get there w/o me, it's been there so many times......
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slate river		#19	[url]	[-]
Posts: 127 09/03/2009 23:30	For me it is out the back door along the path through the meadow to the end of the back yard to a pretty little wild brown trout stream. And believe me when I say I thank God and my wife and family for helping me make it all possible. It is never taken for granted, not for one moment. Bob
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tight loops		#20	[url]	[-]
Posts: 297 09/04/2009 03:17	Man, some of you guys have it very good indeed. We have a big river called the Vaal where we fly-fish for an indigenous species called yellowfish, about an hour's drive from Johannesburg. For trout we have to travel 2 - 3 hours from the city. My buddie Adam and I regularly drive down to my cabin for a day's trouting. We leave at 5.00am, drink Adam's weapons-grade coffee, listen to Tom Waits, and generally do a good job at solving the world's problems. Then at 4.00pm we trek back. People think we're nuts, but putting in the hours on the road just seems to be an integral part of what fishing is about.
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