Our Guiding Year in Review 2025

2025 was our BEST season to date!! Here’s the highlights, catches, and successful lure types and venues.

2nd Guide Client Catches – A Veritable Variety…

A compendium of ‘Client Catches’ courtesy of 2nd Guide Joe, and a multitude of methods and lure types.

Once considered a ‘no go’, a high sun can be overcome with the right plan, methods, and lure type

Hard and soft lures, line, rods, boots, knots, and nets. Here’s my best performing pieces of kit this year.

A wonderful client PB, landed from one of my many marks that don’t require a serious yomp or wade through mud!

How to retrieve a surface lure is THE most common element people wish to learn- for good reason!

A great example of how a troupe of bass will generally provide the angler with a greater chance of connecting…

The Fishus Espetit has been around for a while. However, only now am I beginning to see its virtues….

How the lure’s splash, a tight line, and an instantaneous retrieve can make all the difference…

The short story of a fantastic, open coast, surface lure-caught bass to kick-start my 2024 guiding season.

Via DIY, dogs, book launches, and conceiving and testing gear, these are My Personal Catches from 2023

A summary of my 2023 Guiding Season and how it evolved during what was most certainly a ‘wind influenced’ year!