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Fishing Guides
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beetlespin
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Chris Hight is great and he provides a happy ending
bassinbrian
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I would check around check locals, bait shops etc. Hired one 2yrs ago, great guy, very well known. Hired him before a tournament, thinking it would be a deeper bite (why we hired him) he assured us the grass/frog bite would win the tournament. Fished all day, caught 5, 3 shorts, 2keepers. Asked about the deep fish and he assured us the fish were in the grass and to lay on it tournament time, heck we even gave him a generous tip as he did work hard to try and put us on fish. Tournament time the first grass mat we fished found a ton of boats on it. Come to find out 5 boats had been took there by the same guide, same story next mat. Tournament took almost 30 lbs to win, deep fish on ledge, 2nd place was on a hump... so be sure you get what you want to pay for. Over $400 for eight hours and 5 fish.......maybe we should have insisted on fishing deep, but we trusted our guide. Expensive lesson learned
Corynichols_1
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Rogne without question
SethColeman
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Rogne Brown and Chris Hight......both studs. Fished with both, recommend both.
This is why you shouldn't rely on someone to do your homework for you before a tournament. Any guide is going to run the same spots over and over with different customers. As for Guides unless you are wanting to book one for later in the year you're not going to get one with Rogne anytime soon i'm sure, he stays booked this time of year. Chris Hight is as good as they come, ask any of his customers. Now if you are looking for a guide to show you the winning bag for a tournament that's probably not going to happen
FishingwithRusty
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obviously Rogne has an awesome rep, Chris apparently has a fan base as well. Alex Davis spends most of his time on Gville but does trips on chick as well and i have been with him a couple of times, he's great!
you read the story above and as a former guide the biggest thing is to TALK with the guide, make certain they understand your expectations and can meet them BEFORE you schedule the trip! if youre just going fishing then it really doesnt matter as much but if youre wanting to learn a specific technique or pattern its important.
as for Derek's comments about guides taking all clients to the same place, not all guys do the same things. ive guided multiple people for prep for the same tournament and never took ANY of them to the same stuff, if the guide knows youre prepping for a tournament hopefully he's not showing you stuff that he's showed everyone else recently. as a guide there's not much better than having a client call you back to tell you they won or shouldve won based on what info you gave them, so if i knew a guy was prepping for a T i always tried to give/show them the best info to help them win. what they do with it is up to them. also as a guide you have to have an understanding of the comfort/confidence level of your clients in the techniques youre showing them. i spent 2 days with some college guys from fla in prep for a tournament that i knew would be won deep, showed them the winning schools of fish but they didnt have the confidence/comfort to do that and got beat, my time with them would have been better spent showing them the next best shallow option with a chance to win, lesson learned for both parties.
you read the story above and as a former guide the biggest thing is to TALK with the guide, make certain they understand your expectations and can meet them BEFORE you schedule the trip! if youre just going fishing then it really doesnt matter as much but if youre wanting to learn a specific technique or pattern its important.
as for Derek's comments about guides taking all clients to the same place, not all guys do the same things. ive guided multiple people for prep for the same tournament and never took ANY of them to the same stuff, if the guide knows youre prepping for a tournament hopefully he's not showing you stuff that he's showed everyone else recently. as a guide there's not much better than having a client call you back to tell you they won or shouldve won based on what info you gave them, so if i knew a guy was prepping for a T i always tried to give/show them the best info to help them win. what they do with it is up to them. also as a guide you have to have an understanding of the comfort/confidence level of your clients in the techniques youre showing them. i spent 2 days with some college guys from fla in prep for a tournament that i knew would be won deep, showed them the winning schools of fish but they didnt have the confidence/comfort to do that and got beat, my time with them would have been better spent showing them the next best shallow option with a chance to win, lesson learned for both parties.
Most guides are great guys and try everything possible to help a client be successful. After all that is how they make their money.
I have never hired a guide for freshwater fishing. I do have buddies that have done this to prep for a up coming tournament. They didn't tell the guide that they were going to fish the tournament. Then they were upset when there were a lot of boats on the spots they had fished with the guide. I tried to explain to them they should have been more honest and told the guide the reason for them
hiring him. He would probably have shown them some spots that weren't community holes. I also told them, once he showed you the type of ares the fish were in, they should have done their home work and found others spots like that elsewhere on the lake. The more information you share with a guide or someone you are pre fishing with the better off you are going to be. JMHO
I have never hired a guide for freshwater fishing. I do have buddies that have done this to prep for a up coming tournament. They didn't tell the guide that they were going to fish the tournament. Then they were upset when there were a lot of boats on the spots they had fished with the guide. I tried to explain to them they should have been more honest and told the guide the reason for them
hiring him. He would probably have shown them some spots that weren't community holes. I also told them, once he showed you the type of ares the fish were in, they should have done their home work and found others spots like that elsewhere on the lake. The more information you share with a guide or someone you are pre fishing with the better off you are going to be. JMHO
I understand what you're saying but when someone guides 5 days a week I don't see how they could show everyone different stuff. There is only so much you can fish at a certain time of year that are consistently holding fish. There aren't too many well kept secrets on Chickamauga anymore. You can find that winning school but chances are 3 other people have found them as well.
FishingwithRusty
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you do know there are ALWAYS multiple patterns going on at the same time........right? one may be more likely to produce a winning bag but there are other possibilities. im talking about patterns NOT spots
rsimms
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Everybody mentioned here is excellent... especially if your target is largemouth bass. handles the largemouth trips for <a href=https://www.sceniccityfishing.com/home.html>Scenic City Fishing Charters.
But if you want BIG fish, call me (or my other partners) for a catfish trip. Trust me, we know the largemouth is the king of the hill, but these days catfish are running a close second, especially among those who have actually fished for them. Our philosophy... if it's got scales, it's bait. emoLaugh
But if you want BIG fish, call me (or my other partners) for a catfish trip. Trust me, we know the largemouth is the king of the hill, but these days catfish are running a close second, especially among those who have actually fished for them. Our philosophy... if it's got scales, it's bait. emoLaugh
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FishingwithRusty
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lol! thanks have a nice day! thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom from your years of guide experience.