GUIDED FISHING TRIPS / ABOUT OUR GUIDES

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GUIDED FISHING TRIPS

If you are serious about catching a citation smallmouth, we need to talk! We have the best professional fishing guides working the Greenbrier River. If you want a special day on the river just for yourself, or if you would like to treat a business associate or relative, give us a call. Our guarantee to you is very simple...if you are dissatisfied with our fishing guide service and feel that we did not do our job...YOU DON'T PAY!!!

WHAT DOES IT COST?

FISHING FROM CANOE

One person with guide......................................$125.00/$135.00 Holidays
Two persons with guide....................................$170.00/$180.00 Holidays

FISHING FROM RAFT

One person with guide.......................................$175.00/$200.00 Holidays
Two persons with guide.....................................$250.00/$275.00 Holidays

All prices include the following: Riverside lunch and drinks, watercraft rental, life jacket, safety instructions and fishing guide service. Live bait is also included upon request. As a safety precaution, guided fly fishing trips are best done from rafts. All prices are subject to a 6% state sales tax.

In our River Shop we sell fishing licenses, bait and tackle. Also, we rent everything necessary to fish, camp or paddle the river.

FISHING GUIDE DUTIES

Based on water level, water color, water and air temperature, season of the year and the customer's level of fishing experience, our guides will plan a fishing trip to offer the maximum opportunity for citation catches. You can expect your guide to do the following; offer tips on technique, photograph for publication all citation catches and make you feel welcome.

ABOUT OUR GUIDES

All of our guides are local, good-natured people, with vast fishing experience and valuable experience in rivercraft. Each guide will quickly gain your respect for his kindness and attention to your needs and wants. All guides are licensed with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and have completed CPR and First Aid Training courses.. We employ only professional fishing guides with many citation catches to their credit, (as our photo board will testify).

And now allow me to present our guides

RICHARD FRANKLIN
Richard Franklin is a native of White Sulphur Springs, WV. and presently resides in Greenville, WV.. Even in his early childhood Richard could be found fishing all of the area creeks and rivers. His early love of fishing has become a lifelong passion. For the past 17 years Richard has kept detailed records on how, when and where he has caught smallmouth bass. Those records include such factors as cloud cover, barometric readings, air and water temperatures, water color, holding depth of fish and much more.
Between 1980 and 1998, Richard has caught and recorded more than 57 Trophy Fish including smallmouth, striped and hybrid bass, yellow perch, brook, rainbow and brown trout.

West Virginia Citations - Trophy Fish awards    26
Sports Afield awards - Distinguished Angler      14
Sports Afield awards - Best In Species               16
MEPPS Master Angler award - Grand Slams      5
Virginia Expert Angler awards                              5

Since 1984 Richard has been featured in 9 major fishing publications and magazines. No one knows the local streams as well as Richard Franklin. If you are wanting a trophy smallmouth - we need to talk!

RICHARD FRANKLIN

DAN HUDSON
Dan Hudson, a native of Akron, Ohio. Dan moved to West Virginia in 1989. During the last ten years Dan has fished area creeks and streams on regular basis. When not at work Dan likes to snorkel the Greenbrier River. Dan's fishing tips ? "To catch large fish you must learn to think like a large fish, that's why I snorkel, I go down and visit them. I find their habitats and keep those records on my river maps. When it comes to the Greenbrier River I know where the fish are living, eating and spawning."

West Virginia Trophy Smallmouth   20
West Virginia Trophy Trout              4
Walleye over 9 Lb.                             9
Walleye over 10 Lb.                           5
West Virginia Brown Trout        8 Lb. 7 oz.

Dan has been featured in 3 publications since 1989.

DAN HUDSON

DARRELL CLEMONS
Darrell grew up in the Anthony area of Greenbrier County and has spent his entire life fishing the Greenbrier River. Darrell is VERY familiar with the river between Renick and Pence Springs and has fished that section untold times. A true "Man Of The Water and Woods", Darrell will amaze you with his vast first hand knowledge of his world which you are visiting.

Trophy Smallmouth    Over 100
Trophy Walleye                6
Trophy Rainbow               1
Trophy Brook                   5
Trophy Flatheads            12
Trophy Channel Cats       6

DARRELL CLEMONS

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