Fishing by Region

Northeast

The Northeast is one of the most diverse fishing regions in the country, stretching from the rocky coast of Maine down through the mid-Atlantic shores...

Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · Vermont

Southeast

The Southeast runs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware's beaches down the Atlantic coast through the Carolinas to the Georgia marshes, and west over ...

Arkansas · Delaware · District of Columbia · Georgia · Kentucky · Maryland · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · Virginia · West Virginia

Gulf Coast

The Gulf Coast is the saltwater fishing capital of the United States. From the barrier islands of Texas to the emerald waters of the Florida panhandle...

Alabama · Florida · Louisiana · Mississippi · Texas

Midwest

The Midwest here is the farm-belt five: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. It is big-river country first. The Ohio, the Mississippi, the Miss...

Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Missouri · Ohio

Great Plains

The Great Plains may be flyover country to some, but anglers who know this region understand it harbors some of the most underrated fishing in America...

Kansas · Nebraska · North Dakota · Oklahoma · South Dakota

Mountain West

The Mountain West is trout country -- wild, rugged, and unmatched for the quality of its cold-water fisheries. This is the region of legendary rivers:...

Colorado · Idaho · Montana · Utah · Wyoming

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is defined by its salmon and steelhead. No other region in the lower 48 offers the same connection to wild, anadromous fish that...

Oregon · Washington

California

California is a fishing universe unto itself. The state spans 10 degrees of latitude and ranges from sea level to 14,505 feet at Mount Whitney, creati...

Southwest

The Southwest is the most surprising fishing region in America. In a landscape defined by desert mesas, saguaro cactus, and slot canyons, you might no...

Arizona · Nevada · New Mexico

Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are freshwater inland seas -- five interconnected bodies of water holding 21% of the world's surface fresh water. For anglers, they re...

Michigan · Minnesota · Wisconsin

Hawaii

Hawaii fishes unlike anywhere else in the United States, and the reason is the shape of the sea floor. There is no continental shelf. The islands are ...

Alaska

Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the country combined, and its fishing runs on salmon. Five Pacific species come back to its rivers from lat...