My favorite place outside Aberdeen, South Dakota. I grew up fishing in Aberdeen and some of the best times I have are with my dad, brothers and kids fishing around there.
I particulary like Richmond Lake, it has a nice variety of fish including walleye, northerns, crappie, perch, bullhead, catfish and bluegills. If one species is not biting another is. We have a place where it is not uncommon to catch 1 pound bluegill and if you are using a crappie rig its not uncommon to catch doubles of bluegill (I have never caught double 1 pound bluegills, but wouldn't that be nice?)
We also like to fish the James River (Called "the Jim" by everybody who grew up there). Its great for northerns and walleyes especially in the spring.
Every summer we try to go back for a week or so and take the kids fishing there. I think its their favorite lake too.
Dan
To be honest, the only place i have fished outside of Colorado was in Kansas, when i was a little. We lived out in the country and had 3 ponds that sat behind our house in a huge pasture, and i would try fishing there with a string on a stick. LOL! We would go frog hunting at night though and have fried frog legs. We went to some other local ponds to fish but all i ever caught were little perch. My son is a Kansas fisherman, and he is into catching those monster flatheads and catfish. I think the largest one so far that he caught was 49 pounds. I find it sorta odd that that is what i catch the most here, catfish, like they navigate to my line for some strange reason. I remember going fishing with my grandpa up in Wray Colorado at some reservoir up there, and also catching big turtles with him from a river, and he would cook the turtle. I would bury the turtle eggs in the yard if a turtle had them in them, thinking i would grow baby turtles. Well guess what? It never worked. Ha!
