Thread: Guided trips

A couple things caught my attention here. Every venture is a two sided coin, and 50.00 is a sizable chunk of change for me. 1. It should have been agreed upon, before booking the trip, How you were going to fish. Be it Live scope, single poling, Pushing, pulling, or what have you. 2. In my opinion, there was a better way of showing you the method of fishing with live scope, other than the guide grabbing the first pole off the rack and starting to fish, saying look here fellas, I'm gonna fish, you watch and you'll learn. Unless that's what you agreed upon beforehand. Kinda reminds me of a video I seen where a young top professional crappie fisherman who guides when not on the trail, had some folks out and was supposed to be guiding them. Most of the video the guide was fishing wi
while the others were Which brings up my other point, why wasn't something said long before .5 hours into the trip??? I could see maybe 30 min. but unless the customer is dumb as a rock, they should have a grip on what to do. Show them, put them in the seat, assist them as needed. My opinion. Hope you have a better experience next time.

Always ask if they don't tell you , how you will fish . Most people are switching over to livescope . There are folks that can not and will not be good at dropping on a fish watching a screen . They will not like it. But many want to learn livescope . I have seen guys that were suppose to be great fishermen that can't put a bait where it suppose to go . Many just trolled cranks or spider rigged . It does take some skills and I have even got in a boat with local guides that bought livescope and tried to help them . Even if you had been trolling or spider rigging it may have just been a bad day with the flood . But guide should not have charged you or atleast offered a free trip another time .

Originally Posted by M R Dux

My clients pay me to take THEM fishing, not go fishing with me.


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Originally Posted by Jamesdean

A couple things caught my attention here. Every venture is a two sided coin, and 50.00 is a sizable chunk of change for me. 1. It should have been agreed upon, before booking the trip, How you were going to fish. Be it Live scope, single poling, Pushing, pulling, or what have you. 2. In my opinion, there was a better way of showing you the method of fishing with live scope, other than the guide grabbing the first pole off the rack and starting to fish, saying look here fellas, I'm gonna fish, you watch and you'll learn. Unless that's what you agreed upon beforehand. Kinda reminds me of a video I seen where a young top professional crappie fisherman who guides when not on the trail, had some folks out and was supposed to be guiding them. Most of the video the guide was fishing wi
while the others were Which brings up my other point, why wasn't something said long before .5 hours into the trip??? I could see maybe 30 min. but unless the customer is dumb as a rock, they should have a grip what to do. Show them, put them in the seat, assist them as needed. My opinion. on Hope you have a better experience next time.

Some guys never could catch with me and I resorted to holding a pole dobbing a jig on surface of water so they knew where to drop the bait . Some you will tell the Crappie ate your bait . They would say no he did not bite . Finally tell them to lift their pole . Then they hollar a got a big one . Some folks need to go with old school where they sit on a brush top with a minnow under a bobber or troll . It should be understood upfront what method and skills the folks have in advance . I have an old Bass fishing friend that has been in my boat several times that cannot see his jig on livescope and took 12 year old kids that picked it up in an hour of instruction . I can see guides getting frustrated when they have folks wanting to livescope but can't put a jig in front of the transducer . It takes skills many will never have . Some of my old fishing buddies can go in my boat and never see their jig . Then take another one and catch over 100 a day on same lake and conditions . Took one buddy last month and he started telling me not to let him pitch at every fish . We quit at 2 pm and counter showed over 150. We are both in our 60's . Have taken some in their 80's that do good and some that should not be in a boat . Always remember some will gripe no matter what . Used to take Catfishermen out and they kept a limit in an hour and still complain .

Originally Posted by Rigderunner

After 4.5 hours into an 8 hour trip and us watching him dropping jigs on 100 plus fish

So you watched him fish for 4 1/2 hours without saying anything?

When I've gotten guides in the past it is always discussed how we'll fish up front. I absolutely tell the crappie guide I do not want to spider rig period and only want to single pole. Bass guides, no live bait and I want to cast - Bay fishing I want to wade and or cast not watch a bobber and not fond of live bait but have been talked into using shrimp.

Not always the guides fault . I saw years ago pull up to a brushpile and fishermen said they are not biting . Ask them to hand me a pole drop in and catch one . Pay attention to the one instructing you not do what you always did . Some folks want to learn new techniques but know ahead of time how you will fish . Have seen times where we had to hand someone a pole with set length of line and a jig . Tell them to hold it and let us move boat to the brushpile .

I may be new to guided trips in Mississippi but I’m definitely NOT new to fishing especially crappie fishing.
I feel like I should have never had to ask anybody that is guiding me to fish. I already did that when booking the trip.
I should have made it clear how we would be fishing before hand but I didn’t. Regardless of weather conditions or anything else we should have had a rod in our hand dipping the jig most of the day. We never changed spots or jig colors either


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Originally Posted by Rigderunner

I feel like I should have never had to ask anybody that is guiding me to fish. [/url]

I'm not saying you did anything wrong just that there is no way I would pay to watch my paid guide fish for 4.5 hours without saying something. I wouldn't wait 1 hour even with my best friend!