Know any good guides?

for the tribs that is.
 
I probably could Google it, but I want to know whose good at getting you to some chrome. Originally, I would never use a guide.. But one late conservation in a fly shop kind of got my attention about catching 50-100 some steelies in an outting, needless to say I was interested! No price range, though I don't have much money to spend, lol. Thanks!

http://www.fishusa.com/FishErie/Guides.asp

Don't need a guide to catch 50-100 steelies in a day,spend some time on the rivers,not neccesiarly with a rod in your hand.Learn the area you are fishing and the fish will bend your rod.But then again spend the $300,they need to make a living too.

The best thing about Jim besides his fish catching ability and he has a lot of thet is   Kids under 16 FREE

dude don't wait til january.  you'll go up one day in the beginning of the month, slay them, want to start going up every weekend and it'll be frozen over.  december is better

ORIGINAL: dru2112

dude don't wait til january.  you'll go up one day in the beginning of the month, slay them, want to start going up every weekend and it'll be frozen over.  december is better

I'll probably make 4-5 trips in late November to mid December. In January is when I'm going up with some friends & family, get those Bengal loving gum chewing buckeyes hooked on steel duud..

If you nead a guide for PA steel you may want to take a long look at your life and try to find where you went wrong.

Jiggy Jim Stillhead
He's not only a friend, but I've fished with him many times

he and Ironhead are two of the best anglers I know.
Ironhead no longer guides though.

if you could get Don Mathews, he'd a be a good choice too.
However, he has several guides that work with him, so if it wasn't personally Don guiding you, i'd pass

as far as someone mentioning you don't need a guide, that may be true, but a fellow that wants to shorten the learning curve can benefit tremendously with a "good" guide.
I say "good" guide, cause there are a lot of average steelheaders masquerading as guides


..L.T.A.

Pa and Pa only. I have family all over Ohio, mainly near Wilmington if any of you are familiar with that area. Haven't thought about Ohio fishing, definately something i'd look into..

flyfishermanpa,
    I'd recommend that you talk to Greg Senyo of Steelhead Alley Outfitters.  He's  a class act and he really knows all the tribs; both Ohio and PA.  He offers various packages at competative prices and his personal standards are very high.  Just my opinion.

ORIGINAL: flyfishermanPA

for the tribs that is.

I probably could Google it, but I want to know whose good at getting you to some chrome. Originally, I would never use a guide.. But one late conservation in a fly shop kind of got my attention about catching 50-100 some steelies in an outting, needless to say I was interested! No price range, though I don't have much money to spend, lol. Thanks!

 
No guide on this planet is going to get a client hooked up 50-100 times if that client doesn't already possess the necessary skills.  And if they possess the skills, there's no reason to hire a guide.  If that's what you're expecting (50-100 hookups per person), you're going to be very disappointed. 
 
Those kinds of hookup days only come under perfect conditions.  The likelihood of encountering those conditions, after booking a guide well in advance, which you have to do with a good one, is slim.  And the good guides don't work cheap, nor should they, they are the best at their craft. Like anything, you get what you pay for.

ORIGINAL: fishbreath

ORIGINAL: D-nymph


No guide on this planet is going to get a client hooked up 50-100 times if that client doesn't already possess the necessary skills.  And if they possess the skills, there's no reason to hire a guide.  If that's what you're expecting (50-100 hookups per person), you're going to be very disappointed. 

Those kinds of hookup days only come under perfect conditions.  The likelihood of encountering those conditions, after booking a guide well in advance, which you have to do with a good one, is slim.  And the good guides don't work cheap, nor should they, they are the best at their craft. Like anything, you get what you pay for.

D-nymph hit it squarely on the head.

May I add that a good guide is worth every penny you pay him,cuts your learning curve way down.

ORIGINAL: flyfishermanPA

I don't think it's too much to ask for, 50-100 fish between 3 guys and a few kids during an 8 hour day. Being paid 300-400 bucks I'd expect to provide that to clients if I was a guide..

I live in Butler and it's almost 100 miles exactly to Erie. A learning curve would be nice because every time I've been up there I've been lucky enough to hook into nice amounts of steel without being elbow to elbow, and pretty much with not much to it. With that being said it would be nice to get some of my relatives into steel as well.

 
Depending on your relatives' skill level, "you could", no, check that, "will probably" be in for a rude awakening if those are your expectations.  Especially in January.  Heck, the stream could be locked up completely with ice.

ORIGINAL: flyfishermanPA
That's a risk I'm willing to take , I live on the edge. If it's looking bad around early January, which it very well could, I'll pay the X amount of dollars to cancel. Might as well stay local..

I know many guides want a 6 month notice about scheduling, but the Winter is unpredicable for Erie, as many of you know. If it's looking good I'll give em' a call!

 
Please do let us all know how it went.
 
 

 

I live on the edge.



 
 
If you live on the edge than man up and take them out yourself.  You dont nead a guide.