Hey, thanks for the great replies everybody, Keep 'em coming.

For me, I'm thinkin' it would be west coast of Vancouver Island in the summer and either Cabo or somewhere Hawaiian in the winter. $$ would only make the digs and boats bigger.

I would bascially follow 4Salt around.... except instead of Cabo which I like I would pick Maui.
Cabo is great but I had the diarrhea

#1: How about 250' Waterfront lot on Lake Chelan with no neighbors.

What????? No one wants to live in Gold Bar

#1 Buy a good motor home and a jeep to tow behind it. Then I would travel around with my fly rods and go trout fishing in Montana/Wyoming/Idaho/B.C, Salmon & Steelhead fishing in Washington, Oregon, B.C, and Alaska, with the occational trip to New England for native brook trout and Atlantic Salmon in Canada. I might even fish some Great Lake rivers for steelhead.

#2 property in Montana near some famous rivers and less famous but equally fun rivers, or property in Alaska or the OP.

Leadthrower, I do!!
I'm simple.
Sky Valley near the Sky will do for me!

RIGHT HERE!




Course, the above was taken at

Mike

Let me guess, Mike.
The mighty Skagit!

Ya just gotta love it!

Not all peaches and cream though...there is a price to pay for living this far out.

Safeway - 38 miles away.

Doctor or Hospital - 24 miles away.

Home Depot - 35 miles away.

I-5 - 33 Miles away.


Salmon, Steelhead, FISHING - 100 ft. away.

Who needs Safeway, Doctors, Home Depot and I-5?

Mike

I'm with you on that! Mike.
What about high speed internet, Do you get that out there?

No true "high-speed" like you would get from the cable TV type, but we have a fairly fast (800k+) DSL connection.

Frankly, having had Comcast high-speed via the TV cable that typically ran 1.2 meg+, and now this Verizon DSL line at 800k+ you really can't tell the difference.

So far, Verizon DSL has been a far better choice in terms of service and performance. -0- down time in months.

Mike

DSL will work just fine, Mike.
You're lucky verizon provides dsl service out in your area.
I live in Lynnwood and verizon could not provide dsl service, go figure??
However, cable company was happy to provide their high speed service.

OK, I'll bite.... finally:

In my heart, my "home" river will always be the mighty Kenai.... the river where I first wet a line as an 10 yr old kid.... the place where my lifelong fishNaddiction was spawned. But realistically it's only a 4 month season.... 5 tops if you are pushing it, unless of course ice fishing is your gig.

From a practical point of view, it's pretty damn tough to beat good old Grays Harbor. Summer steelhead right in my back yard, within an hour or two in several SW WA streams, or a couple hours north on the coastal OP. Summer fishing for ocean salmon, bottomfish, and later tuna. Fantastic salmon fishing in my back yard during the fall. Winter steelhead again in my back yard or up TRBO's way. Springers and sturgeon a couple hours south to the Columbia. Did I say summer steelhead....

Ok that's one hell of a never-ending fishing season, don't you think? Now if I could just break away a little more often to enjoy it.

When I moved over to Port Angeles in 1971 from the "busy side of the water" where I had lived since 1952 (minus Army time and a few brief excursions to Alaska) I felt like I had moved into heaven......really. There was an endless list of fishing, crabbing, shrimping, hunting, drinking (a past vice now), and no shortage of women (another vice of yesteryear).....flatass awesome! Fishing and Logging were the main stays, and most everything revolved around those two industries. I liked and respected those independent, self-reliant, "don't-need-nor-want-your-help, thanks-very-much" folks (referred to occasionally now as "knuckle-draggin, hickory-shirted, mouth- breathing Neanderthals").

So times change and we are where we are.....I liked it better the old way. That said, I suspect that Alaska (at least for the Summer months) is the only place that could even remotely come close to what it used to be like locally, so if I had my choice it would be up North .......but then I'm sure my wife has other ideas. (We need a “wussy-whipped” icon.

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I would have a few modest,cozy,pads on the following waters.
1) Marathon Key during Tarpon season
2) Sitka for chinook,Halibut, A house boat will do here 26ft Sea Sport, twin 250 Mercs, home sweet home.
3) Cabin on the upper,upper HOKO I just had a wet dream over this post....