If retirement is less than a decade away, you may want to start mulling some options. For you, Field and Stream listed the “Top 20 Best Fishing Towns in America” – most are chosen by gamefish, but that’ll be a fair rebuttal to “Top 20 Retirement Towns Chosen By the Missus, Because Her Ma Lives There.”
Forget about selling your home now, six or seven years from now the banks will be considering lending money again, and you’ll be positioned to pounce.
California just barely squeaked in – the Little Stinking has not yet made the “must do” list for the Jet Setter crowd, so the Trout Underground is the beneficiary with Redding, CA at number 19. Having lived in Redding for five years I can agree with their assessment of the fishing, everything else was a damn lie…
The beauty of this part of the country is that you can be up in the cool mountains, or down in the warm valley within minutes. The seasons are mild, and the overall town atmosphere, while maintaining some California-tourism flair, is ultimately quite genuine.
They failed to mention that Redding is the last warm part of the Central Valley, with temperatures reaching 110 – 117 each summer. When your feet leave tracks in asphalt – it’s hot.
So’s the fishing.
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Yes, when I read the soaring prose about Redding’s “mild” seasons and “genuine” atmosphere, I just couldn’t bring myself to blog it.
Last I checked, uncontrolled strip development, worsening traffic issues and summer highs approaching 120 degrees do not a paradise make.
I enjoyed living there in 1990-95′ – Spring was everything they mentioned, Summer was often hellish.
It is 45 minutes away from all of the best fishing in Northern California – a fellow could fish there for 40 years and see half of it.