Every time I was on Lake Austin with my Legend, I saw another guide with a Legend near by. Go with Brian Parker, he is on the water more than anyone else and has caught giants this year.

Would love to promote the Lake Austin Guides but the lake is just not fishing well. Grab a Centex guide and head to LBJ, I'm sure they'll put you on fish.

THIS!

For anyone looking for a guide that stumbles upon this post in the future...please rest assured that the negative post you see above about Charles Whited is the polar opposite of what I know to be true. Charles is good people and has a long list of happy customers that continues to grow almost daily! Book him with confidence

Agreed....Charles is a great guide and a great person. I wouldn't let that single comment sway you from him.

This is honestly the first time in my life that I have heard a negative word said about Charles.

Seriously? I bet you have him mixed up with someone else. Never heard a bad word about this guide, period.

Have used Charlie as well. Great guy. I'm sure everyone including yourself has had a bad day at work John so I'm not saying you have fabricated your story, but I can assure you there are many more happy than upset customers who fish with Charles. We had a rough day with him as well a few years ago, but the lake was fishing tough (not Lake Austin) at that time. He helped me understand the graphs and fishing techniques as well. This guy fishes A TON to support his family so I can imagine every now and then may not be his best day.

Would 100% recommend Charlie any day.

Every now and then someone comes on the forum and blasts a great guide because they can't catch fish that day. News flash - even guides have days they can't catch them! If you think the bad fishing day is his fault you are really deluded. The guide who earns his living on the water has the best chance to get something done then anybody. Sometimes they just won't cooperate...its called fishing.

Charles is one of the top guides in the hill country and knows every lake around us.

peace!

The reason I hired Charles in the first place was because of all the good things I had heard about him on this forum and from looking at his tournament results. I'm just telling you the experience I had. I've fished my whole life, won (and lost) big tournaments as a co-angler and professional so I know that on any given day, anyone can get skunked. And I've fished with many guides and know how that should go as well.
Maybe he was having a bad day, maybe he had somewhere to be, maybe he didn't feel good. I don't know. What I do know is, that if I had a client that hired me for the first time, I would bust my butt to make sure they had a good experience. Not hey, your four hours are up, (I literally felt like asking him if he needed to be somewhere, b/c he was checking his watch so often) sorry we didn't catch anything see you next time.
To answer below it was an afternoon trip.

You booked a half day, maybe he had another half day scheduled after. In my experience with booking and fishing with guides (a ton), a half day trip typically means exactly that, 4 hours. Maybe he had to pick his kids up, maybe he was checking the time to determine where the best location was to get bit at that time, maybe he just had an off day. I don't know, but I would still confidently recommend him. Dude catches them everywhere and has a long list of satisfied customers.