Favorite Place I've Fished - Outside North America

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WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO FISH?

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You'll find a total of four surveys here in our forum and are welcome to offer a response in each. Two are based on experience and two on fantasy.

THIS THREAD: Favorite Place I've Fished - Outside North America

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When the survey period has ended, for each survey a winner will be picked at random from all who voted and Yo-Zuri will send him/her a box of 12 various inshore/offshore lures.

[Seth]

Wow, now this a tough one. There are so many spectacular places that I have fished around the world. From a total experience perspective, I am going to say my favorite place outside of North America has to be Madeira. On the water and on the land this place is magical.

[The Trolling Stone]

Sailfish Bay, Puerto Ixtapa Guatemala. 8 of us caught 72 sails in 3 days. Really nice lodge right on the beach, great staff, food and bar.

[stringle]

Spent a week on Hoeng-Do, an island off the coast of South Korea. The island is populated, but there was no electricity, utilities or phones. You pretty much just take a boat to the island and the villagers meet you at the dock and volunteer to host you. They just relish the chance to interact with outsiders (not many tourists drop in)! Daily we'd go out into the Yellow Sea with nothing but chop sticks and dipping sauce. We'd stay out drinking and eating fish until we were "full"; then head back to the village with dinner. The villagers would roll out with everything for a feast for all. I bonded with the family that took me in. When we left, we gave the lady of the house a few hand fulls of cash and she about passed out. She was reluctant to take it, but apparently that would be more than enough to send her son (our fishing guide) to some class or course and she cried the whole time we were loading up to leave. Just to make the whole thing more interesting...I didn't speak Korean and they didn't speak English. It was a great trip and one that I will never forget.

[Toothy]

Isla Banca, (Cancun) Mexico

Still completely unspoiled, spend the day and see no one but the people that came with you!!

Caught my first (and only) Super Grand Slam.... Permit, Bonefish, Snook (3 species) and Tarpon, along with many other species, Snapper, Ladyfish, Sheepshead, etc....

Fish the ocean side for rod breaking jacks in the surf!!

Tarpon and Snook all came on Yozuri "green mackerel" Mag Darters
Bone fish and Permit took white or brown Popeye Jigs

[kenadamsfish]

Los Roques, Venezuela
No other place on earth brings out adrenaline and testosterone like this!

• Warm weather and hispanic feel
• Scare of your life getting there
• Miles of an unspoilt atoll
• Bonefish amazing on 6-7 line
• WOW

Enjoy!...Oh and pray you get there! (Two planes disappeared between Caracas and Los Roques last year)
Cheers,
K.

[frishman]

Quepos, Costa Rica - Sailfish on the fly!!!

[bonephish]

Since Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Costa Rica are part of the North American continent, I'll have to say Venezuela.

[Sam Salmon]

Fiji-wonderful people, great fishing, delicious fresh food all from the sea or the garden.

[gonetoprint]

I have fished in Brazil (many times for Peacock Bass) Thailand (for Mekong Catfish) Africa (for Tigerfish) and England (for Wels).
My favorite trip is to Brazil for the Peacock Bass.