If you have ever booked a guided trip, guides are flat out amazing. I spent a morning prefishing with Josh Sutton from Southern Wind Guide Service to learn a little more about how he manage to catch so much fish. Some of the key things that I learned will help me catch more fish!

1. Be prepared to fish multiple ways- we originally intended to deadstick but the wind was forecasted to die so we had bait as backup
2. Know where the fish have been biting- Josh had knowledge from recent trips, but we fished each of those spots to find the hottest fish.
3. Fish each spot for 10-15 min, then move on, the hottest spot is ultimately where he will bring the clients.
4. Try different types of structure and use your graph to find the most promising spots.
5. Adjust as the fishing conditions change.
6. If you are thumping with bait, it can take up to 10 minutes to get the fish in a feeding mood but it will happen

I hope you enjoy the video!


https://youtu.be/Pn_R_JBjGqU

Neat video. Thanks for sharing.

Was an awesome day Eric. Thanks for putting this together and helping out with the bait catching. It can be a challenge with an ice covered boat deck.

Yes Sir Guides earn their money everyday. They also work under pressure everyday. Enjoyed the video.

Thanks for sharing!

No doubt! It’s amazing how much work happens behind the scenes! Shout out to all the guides making it easy for us to catch fish! Not to mention Josh catches about 10 fish to my one!

I fished five out of seven days of late . Too tired to get honey do's accomplished . I am in my seventies however, there is a lot of work to fishing if done properly. High winds ,wind socks etc. thank GOD for auto thumpers and self deploy and stow TM.

7. Call your other guide buddies who are fishing and find out where there at if your not catching them at your spot.

No doubt! One guide called Josh and I have about 30 fishing buddies I can call!

Going out tomorrow any spots to start at.

North of highway 70 bridge!

When you see what looks like an erupting underwater volcano on the fish finder, stop and fish there. lol