Recommend Guide For Salt Water Trip?

[Hockley]

Glenn Ging - Matagorda. Great with kids.
He goes by Coastal Ducks on here.

Another vote for Glen!

[silencer2011]

Doug Stanford, Pirates of the bay charters. He fishes Rockport, Port A, Arkansas Pass.

[ANSCAG]

Ben Boudreaux - (713) 303-1095

Tell him Estes sent you.

I've known Ben since I was in 5th grade, still weird seeing Capt in front if his name after all these years. This guy is right. Ben will make sure you and your son have a great time making memories together and fillin the box.

[SCREAMINREELS]

Trey Prye. I've fished with him in East Matty before and he did great with the kid we had with us.

He mentioned he fishes with Texas Boys Outdoors which is ran by a TBH'r.

Really? Who is it? I follow them a bit

[Jamesdad07]

My cousin Jake Rangnow fishes out of Galveston bay complex. *(361) 243-2490. Tell him Matt sent you. He will grind hard to put y’all on the fish. These are just a few trips over the past few years.


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[Buckley99]

Just a thought. I would be targeting a guide that has a reputation of being great with kids more than someone who will fill the box. Every guide has rough days but hiring a guide that is great around your 12 year old will ensure that he/she has a great time. And just to be clear, there are plenty of great guides who are great with kids and know how to put you on fish. Those two are not mutually exclusive.

[Poco]

Just a thought. I would be targeting a guide that has a reputation of being great with kids more than someone who will fill the box. Every guide has rough days but hiring a guide that is great around your 12 year old will ensure that he/she has a great time. And just to be clear, there are plenty of great guides who are great with kids and know how to put you on fish. Those two are not mutually exclusive.

Bingo!!

I can refer the OP to a few guides that are hard to beat when it comes to catching fish. However they are big time butt holes and will/can ruin your day quick. Seen it first hand.


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[Bassbuster]

Dang. Coming from a successful longtime part time guide it sounds like your looking for that gem guide. We all have bad days and sometimes it was better yesterday and sometimes it ends up being a boat ride. Any guide that tells you they don’t have bad days is a liar. Fishing can be unpredictable like hunting can be. Hiring a guide doesn’t guarantee you a loaded box. It guarantees you a day on the water being serviced to the full extent. You can do a search on here for my trips and you will see I put a lot of fish in the boat but what you wont see is the days its sucked. No full time guide is gonna be happy to tell you that either cause he has to pay his bills.

Just my 2 cents.


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. This is the honest truth. I like to see someone else fells the way I do.

[Jamesdad07]

Dang. Any guide that tells you they don’t have bad days is a liar. Fishing can be unpredictable like hunting can be. Hiring a guide doesn’t guarantee you a loaded box. It guarantees you a day on the water being serviced to the full extent.

Really good point



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[wtb90]

Michael Rolf out of Matagorda.

http://www.matagordabay.com/rolf/

[Boss Buck]

Glenn Ging - Matagorda. Great with kids.
He goes by Coastal Ducks on here.

X2 another vote for Glenn. Great guy.

[Wits_End]

The difference is on those bad days, does the guide pull out every trick they know or do they give up and give you a boat ride only. I'm much more familiar with freshwater fishing and guides, most are out to fill the boat with sand bass and call it a day. There are some that simply know fishing and will do everything in their power to put you on fish, sometimes it just doesn't work out, but you have a good time. Been there, done that.

Just recently took a trip to the bay with three guide boats, all very experienced fishermen ready to load the boats and the end results was "fishing was good yesterday". One guide hit all of the community spots in the middle of numerous other boats, basically following the pack, very few fish came up on any boat, but the guide decided to stay even after everyone else left, proceeded to repeat this from 5-11am and then gave up. A full day was paid for at the encouragement of this guide, a half day of being a boat taxi with 3 fish was provided. Another guide was a weekend wanna-be who had his 3 spots and nothing else. When the fish weren't biting in those spots, he had no alternatives. The third guide put them on a few fish, but worked hard to find more and even switched up species, baits and other tactics. So two boat rides and a decent trip. Paid over $2k for three boats on a full day trip, including something like 20 dozen croakers for a poor experience and a total of 20 fish. The response was "sometimes that's the way fishing goes".

So asking for a good guide is not a crazy request, doesn't necessarily mean you are going to catch boat loads of fish, but it should mean that every effort is going to be made to have a chance. I know who not to fish with in Galveston now.

[stickman]

Just a thought. I would be targeting a guide that has a reputation of being great with kids more than someone who will fill the box. Every guide has rough days but hiring a guide that is great around your 12 year old will ensure that he/she has a great time. And just to be clear, there are plenty of great guides who are great with kids and know how to put you on fish. Those two are not mutually exclusive.

I agree completely here. I've been guiding part time for a few years now and have had pretty good feedback from customers and quite a few return clients. My favorite trips are father/son mother/daughter trips. This is my opinion but I'd venture to bet that no matter who(guide) I fished with when I was 12 years old all that mattered is that I had a great day with my dad, saw cool new stuff, and was able to fish my backside off trying to catch whatever I could. I've run a few father/son trips where the kid learned from dad that a full box is what made the day successful, Bad lesson that can lead to great disappointments in the future. I do feel that when someone pays good money the guide (I) should make EVERY attempt to put clients on fish. If that includes extra bait/different species/longer days, that's exactly what I do. Unfortunately, some days no matter what things don't work out. My suggestions in Corpus Christi area are:
Alex Murphy
Paul Braly
Geronimo Leal
Grant Coppin
And there are more I'm sure I am leaving out that are great with kids and consistently on fish.

[Grant2]

Thanks for all the replies. First I know the difference in a yesterday guy and a guy that works hard. I was a fresh water guide for a few years and I know the difference in a guy that knows his stuff. I have never fished the salt and would just like a chance to take my son out and enjoy a day on the water. I have always heard you fish the salt you don't go back well they better bring their A game b/c Falcon and Fayetteville are hard to beat LOL!

[stickman]

Thanks for all the replies. First I know the difference in a yesterday guy and a guy that works hard. I was a fresh water guide for a few years and I know the difference in a guy that knows his stuff. I have never fished the salt and would just like a chance to take my son out and enjoy a day on the water. I have always heard you fish the salt you don't go back well they better bring their A game b/c Falcon and Fayetteville are hard to beat LOL!

I love falcon.
Add Daniel Land or Adam doelle to the list of guys to fish with here in CC. They are very consistent fishermen.