Welcome toWild Smallie Guided Fishing

If you are looking to get in on the best, most exciting fishing the state has to offer, look no farther. While I specialize in chasing down smallmouth bass and muskies on the Upper Mississippi, I have other trips available as well. Wade fishing trips on local trout streams are a great option, and I am now featuring fall sturgeon trips as well.

River Muskie Guiding

I Guide for Muskies on the Mississippi River

Smallmouth Bass Guiding

Guiding the Mississippi River Since 1995

My Blog

Bullheads

When I set the hook, I knew right away that this was no bluegill, and not a crappie either. The rest of the family was bobber fishing, and I was pitching a small tube jig to the edge of some green milfoil, a proven approach on this favorite panfish lake. A session...

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Smallmouth Bass, Fairy Stones, and Treasure City

Smallmouth Bass, Fairy Stones, and Treasure City

Most of the time if I go camping it is because of necessity, not just because camping is so much damn fun.  I may camp out because there just happens to be a campsite where I’m fishing, or maybe I spent too much money on tackle and can’t come up with the funds for a...

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Muskie on a Fly?  Totally Doable.  Right in your backyard.

Muskie on a Fly? Totally Doable. Right in your backyard.

You want to catch a muskie on a fly?  No one said it was going to be easy.  Or did they?  Be sure that I didn’t.  You want to catch a lot of fish?-- I suggest a trip to one of our fine local spring creeks, this time of year the hatches will keep the trout feeding and...

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Since I’m a Guide…I Think I’ll Just Guide Myself!

Since I’m a Guide…I Think I’ll Just Guide Myself!

  “PLOP” I watched one of my last jigs disappear into the swirling green water I was standing in.  It had slipped through my shaking fingers when I was retying after releasing the biggest snook I had ever caught.  I should have been mad, but I just chuckled and...

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Middle Dam

There is a special place not far from here, known by many as Willow River State Park. Before I had ever been there, I knew it as Middle Dam.   My grandpa was a retired teacher who fished a lot, and often talked of this place.  Surprisingly, for how much he fished, he...

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DNR Announces Celebrity Fundraiser to Combat Invasives

DNR Announces Celebrity Fundraiser to Combat Invasives

 As we enter the year 2015, we need to realize more than ever how important it is to keep our great state free of evil aquatic invasives.  I’m sure by now you’ve heard the horror stories of how some of these organisms have already fouled our waters.  The Eurasian...

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