Where would you move to..

TN SC NC.

That place in Kansas would have great duck hunting nearby. Can't help with fresh water fishing

Missouri too

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Why not the other two states?

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I'll vacation to them

Good duck hunting near Browns ferry. Great bass fishing, Lake Guntersville and Wheeler close by.

nuke 1 in Arkansas
easy choice for ducks and bass fishing

If making this on hunting/fishing only:
1. Those nukes up in NW IL or across river in Iowa. All those are close to the Midwest deer heaven and on the split of the flyways.
2. Grand Gulf. That dot is way off from where it really is. I would rank Port Gibson the top outdoor area in all the Southeast/Texas period. You have more tributaries meeting the Mississippi than just about anywhere. There are OLD family tracts that kill giants, slay ducks, and load up on the white perch annually... and it never gets posted on the interwebz.

Id go to Minnesota. The deer hunting is good/great there are you're a few hours drive from Canada.

One in Arkansas is on lake Dardanelle. Great fishing and good deer hunting and hunting as well.

Arkansas for duck hunting for sure but if your for bass fishing and all around hunting Texas is the place to be. Texas only loses to Arkansas in Duck hunting and freshwater trout fishing. In Texas you can kill antelope, whitetail, mule deer, Javilenas, Nilgai, better dove and Quail hunting, and coastal fishing. Not to mention all the other things that go along with salt water and gator hunting.


I mean for overall hunting Texas can't be beat. Now for scenery and other things to do there are better places.

Nebraska. Only because I lived there and know the quality of hunting is outstanding. A few hours west of those locations, you're in Muley & Speed Goat range.

Mountain lions had a season last year, but it got the ax in 2015. Probably because they don't have enough information about the population to satisfy the do-gooders and get them to back off--about like the Black Bear in LA. There's also bighorn sheep in the Pine Ridge unit (Northwest corner of NE, upper panhandle region, which is beautiful big country).

A 10-hour drive into the Rockies, you'll run into elk and bear country, but, since elk were introduced on Fort Riley, just outside Manhattan, KS, there have been trail cam pictures circulating as far north as the NE/KS state line. I wouldn't say it's a full-blown takeover or migration, but the range is slowly expanding--very slowly.

A little drive north, you're in South Dakota, which offers excellent Mule Deer and Whitetail hunting, in addition to outstanding pheasant hunting. Iowa's pheasant population has been on the rise, and the whitetails there are awesome as well.

Missouri and Kansas offer great whitetail hunting, as well as upland bird hunting.

Your waterfowl hunting will be excellent in the eastern portion of NE & KS. I'm not sure about the other areas, being that I don't duck hunt.

As for fishing, it's pretty damn good all over the place. Tuttle Creek, just outside Manhattan, stocks the reservoir with Rainbows every spring--at least while I was at K-State they did.

If there were better paying jobs up there, I would have never left. If I hit the Power Ball or have a halfway decent retirement, I'd love to go back. I'd probably live in Kansas to get the resident rates there, just because Nebraska is considerably cheaper for deer permits at $216 for non-residents, and they don't require a hunting license for big game.