I've been with a guide a couple of times on Lake Cumberland fishing for stripers. The first guide was so full of corn you couldn't tell what was true and what was a lie. I actually caught a couple of fish with him and he imparted some knowledge to my one buddy, who got skunked. We now have many years of fishing for stripers under our belts and laugh about how full of corn that guide was. I haven't heard anything about him and think he no longer guides. We did tip him well. The second guide is well known on LC and has a great reputation. We took him out in Nov. one year. My buddy and I took our wives. Worst trip I've ever been on. Record cold front had come through the night before. It was cold. I would say we fished for a total of about half an hour. All we did was drive around from the dam to half way down the lake. At one point our wives needed to get to a lady's room. The guide pulled over to the bank and let them out. They come back after walking a ways to find some privacy only to have the guide joke that we didn't see any deer, but we saw a couple of whitetails. At another time he said, "look up the hill, deer"! We all turned to look and then we hear the sound of water. We turn around and he is standing at the front of the boat taking a leak. Our wives weren't impressed with his service and neither were we. I expected the fishing to be tough, but he didn't even try. He would look at his fish finder and say, "there's one, and a couple more, and here's a few more", as we kept on moving. He would say, "there could be 50 more stripers just off the cone". We still kept moving. I got the impression he was looking for the mother load so he could get our limits and get back to the house. He kept saying how he wished he was in the deer stand. Kept talking about his son was hunting while he was out on the lake. Our wives have not been back with us since. Oh and we tipped him well. We were under the impression that it was expected.
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Originally Posted by houseboatjoe
