Welcome
Your guide to U.S. sport fishing is expanding! Check out the states and species we already cover and come back soon for more.
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Use this interactive map to find your next fishing spot in the USA!
WHAT’S NEW?
14 Best Catfish Fishing Lakes and Rivers in California
Fishing for catfish in California is a simple pleasure that results in delicious eating. While they are almost everywhere, these lakes and rivers offer the very best catfishing.
12 Best Crappie Fishing Lakes in California
Crappie are fun to catch, tasty to each and found all over California. We show you the best fishing lakes and rivers, along with tips to help you catch a bucketful of slab crappies.
Lake Skinner Fishing: Tips for Catching a Full Stringer
Lake Skinner is smaller and quieter than several Riverside County reservoirs, but it comes up big for fishing with good numbers of stripers, largemouth bass, trout and channel catfish.
Silverwood Lake Fishing: How to Catch Stripers and More
Silverwood Lake is a hot spot for striped bass and offers some very good fishing for trout, largemouth bass and other game fish. We’ll show you how, where and when to catch them.
New Melones Lake Fishing: Catch Bass, Trout & Kokanee
As a fishing hole, New Melones Lake almost has it all. It’s a big reservoir where you can catch plenty of bass and trout, as well as kokanee, catfish and crappie. We show you how.
Lake Havasu Fishing: Famous for Bass; Lots More to Catch
Lake Havasu is a destination fishing spot for Arizona, California and far beyond. Known world-wide for bass fishing, it also has big stripers, catfish, bluegill and redear sunfish and even more.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Best Fishing in America launched more than a decade ago in Oregon and is expanding across the U.S. Our goal is to provide a free, easy-to-use website where recreational anglers can learn where, when and how to get the most out of their precious fishing time, whether close to home or on the road.
Publisher Eric Apalategui has been an award-winning West Coast journalist and teacher for more than 20 years — and crazy about fishing much longer. Co-conspirators who share their angling insights on this website include expert writers and researchers, guides, tackle shop owners, lodge operators, tackle manufacturers, angling organization members and, of course, lots of fellow fishing fanatics.
