What to do! What to do!

[PRO V LE]

It was a guide that posed this question to me. As noted above C/R of Stripers is not possible. I think he felt bad but had no other option than to quit with a boat limit.

[creeker]

I think if there's no agreement stated ahead of time that the trip would be x time or a limit, whichever came first; the guide could have offered a different choice of doing something else. I probably wouldn't have offered up more striper fishing, but might have thrown out bass, or maybe even redears; or even a trip to the dam or some other feature and back. But part of that also takes a good read on the clients. If I had driven multiple hours to come down to fish stripers and was done after 2 hours, I probably would have felt like I wasn't getting my money's worth. Especially if it was my first time, I'd think that every guide could do that and he was just trying to rush us off. But if I was local and had been several times, I might have appreciated being done so soon.

[Duayne]

The guides on Cumberland that are worth anything will customize a trip around what you want a head of time. But changing up after catching a limit of stripers isn't practical. I don't know of any striper guide boat that has a rod locker and they are already taking 20 rods set up for live bait. Asking them to also bring set ups and tackle for bass and walley might be a bit much but if you want to chase bass or walley they can accommodate. Many of those boats aren't laid out well for casting and a few of the guides have separate boats for those type trips.

As for customizing a trip, I have talked to one of the guides about hiring them, but using my boat, my equipment and my know how. His job will be to offer suggestions on any little detail that he sees fit.