Best Fishing Places

Capturing the best quality fishing experiences across the country while promoting the best guides and charters businesses in the industry.

Whether you are fishing a lake, river or somewhere on the ocean, your fishing experience usually hinges on the obvious, fish biting, but a good crew can also make or break the trip. Help us build a site full of awesome places to fish. Post your experiences, visit our top quality Charter fishing companies and fishing guides from around the US.

Check out the Seafood receipes we've collected and enjoy some good cooking. From Mahi, to Salmon and Tuna.

If your looking for specific fishing information by state, including fishing license information for 2009.

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Best Fishing Places

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Spring Chinook Salmon Season open on some Oregon Rivers
Spring chinook season is open on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. check out the latest information and regulation at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Herb Basted Rockfish
1 lb. Fresh rockfish fillets, thawed if necessary 2 tbsp. butter or margarine ~ can substitute extra virgin Olive Oil 2 tbsp. dry white wine or fish stock 1 tbsp. each chopped green onion and parsley Dash each of thyme and marjoram, crushed Lemon slices Cut rockfish into serving sized pieces. Melt butter; add remaining ingredients except lemon. Place rockfish [...]
2010 Fishing tournament spots open.
The bestfishingplaces.com deep sea fishing tournament has 20 spots open for the two days of fishing, 10 per day. We will be deep sea fishing off the coast of Newport Oregon for Tuna, Halibut or Salmon. Check out the event registration page or the 2010 tournament page for more information. We look forward to an [...]
Seafood Quality Guide
Quality should be your main consideration in buying fresh or frozen fish. Good seafood Does not smell "fishy". The following are some tips, which will help you select good seafood. Fresh Fillets and steaks Flesh: Firm Texture. Moist, glossy, translucent appearance. No traces of browning or drying out. Odor: Fresh ocean smell; not offensive. Fresh whole fish Eyes: Bright, clear [...]
Sea Adventure Sport Fishing buys another boat.
Last Year our deep sea fishing tournament was held in San Diego and hosted by Sea Adventure Sport Fishing and the Jigstrike. They have purchased another boat and are refurbishing it for the fishing season approaching. Here is more information about it We are proud to announce the purchase of a 30 passenger sport fishing [...]
T-shirts and Hats on sale
Get the latest Hook, Line and Sinker T shirt. We also have a few baseball caps left. Visit the merchandise section to order yours today.
Dungeness Crab boiled right on the dock
When fishing in Newport, crabbing is a nice side gig to take part in. Placing the pots out on your way to the fishing grounds and pulling them up when you come back in. After pulling up the pots, throwing the females back and the smaller ones that do not make the size; we race [...]
Sport Fishing, Charters and Fishing Guides
Capturing the best quality fishing experiences across the country while promoting the best guides and charters businesses in the industry. Whether you are fishing a lake, river or somewhere on the ocean, your fishing experience usually hinges on the obvious, fish biting, but a good crew can also make or break the trip. Help us build [...]
Pacific Halibut possible for tournament? Would be nice
We have picked the weekend of July 16th in the hopes of hitting one of the weekend Halibut catch periods. Pacific Coast Halibut is regulated and limited to 3 or 4 weekends only during the summer months. In 2009 this same weekend saw some nice Halibut catches. Pictures are from the docks at Yaquina Bay [...]
2010 tournament preliminary date scheduled for July 16-18
Our 2nd Annual Fishing Tournament will be held next year in Newport Oregon and hosted by Yaquina Bay Charters. I have arranged preliminary fishing dates of 7/16 and 7/17. We are in discussion about the number of boats and type of trips we will be organizing. We have a shot at Albacore Tuna, Halibut, Coho [...]