Lake Fork Guides

[Rusty Shackleford]

Does any have any experiences with booking a guide on Lake Fork? If so, any recommendations?

[Quillback]

Never have fished Lake Fork, or hired a guide there, but if I do someday, I'd check out Tom Redington. Don't know if you saw his thread in this section, but here's the link.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/107614-lake-fork-fishing-report%e2%80%94tourney-edition/

[six-mile C-Rig]

Here is a list off the top of my head. You can google just about any of these guys, im pretty sure they all have websites.

Lance Vick, Tom Redington, Cody Malone, Mark Mitchell, James Caldemeyer, Jason Hoffman, Rick Carter, Mark Pack, Andrew Grills, Stephen Fatheree, Ronnie Kelly.

[Glenn]

Tom's a great guy and a regular here. However I've never fished with him. But I have fished with Dean Stroman a few times and highly recommend him. It's been a few year, so I don't know if he's still guiding, but if he is, that would make him the guide that's been there the longest (some 30 years). Suffice to say, he kinda knows the lake.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Thanks for insight everyone! I wasn't able to make it work this trip to Texas, but I'll be coming back in November, which won't be so last minute, and I'll hook up with someone then....

[jbsoonerfan]

I have only used one guide and he has been mentioned 3 times in this thread. I wasn't happy with my experience. Maybe the fishing was tough that day, but I didn't feel like he did everything to his ability to put us on fish. I have since been on my own and caught more fish each time out than I did with a guide.

I know fishing is unpredictable, but I didn't feel like he cared whether or not we caught fish. He fished more than he guided. I didn't pay to watch him fish, I paid to have him help me catch fish.

I always heard the best way to learn a new lake was to hire a guide. Not in this case. He almost seemed to try to keep his spots secret.