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Your guide to the
best fishing in the U.S.
Find Your State’s Best Fishing Spots
Use this interactive map to find your next fishing spot in the USA!
WHAT’S NEW?
13 Best Crappie Fishing Lakes in Florida (Speckled Perch)
You might want to catch crappies. You might call them speckled perch or simply specks. But what you really want to know is where to go fishing for them in Florida. And we’ll show you.
13 Best Speckled Trout Fishing Spots in Alabama
Alabama packs a lot of speckled trout fishing into its relatively short coastline. We show you the best coastal bays, beaches and bayous in the state for speckled trout fishing.
8 Best Ice Fishing Lakes in Colorado
Colorado has plenty of trout and other game fish. And it has lots of lakes that freeze in the winter. That’s the recipe for great ice fishing. Here are the best winter fishing lakes.
14 Best Crappie Fishing Lakes in Alabama
Alabama has more crappie than you can shake a cane pole at. But when it comes to catching lots of truly fat slabs, we’ll show you the very best crappie fishing lakes across the state.
20 Best Bass Fishing Lakes in Alabama
Alabama is full of big reservoirs loaded with huge bass. We show you not only where and how to fish the big-name lakes but also some lesser-known bass fishing hotspots.
9 Best Bass Fishing Lakes & Rivers Near Jacksonville
Jacksonville and other nearby areas of North Florida offer a wealth of shallow, weedy lakes full of big bass. We’ve curated a list of the very best places to catch bass in this region.
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.
