Confused. Is this post from years before reserve fishing was released?

I don't think the feedback rating you refer to is nearly as important as personally talking to the guide. A rating given by an anonymous person is of limited value. The idea that info on what to bring and where to meet that is give at the time of booking is sufficient is not what I would expect. I personally would want up to date info a couple of days before the planned trip. Conditions change constantly. You may need to bring different tackle or lures that what you had planned a couple of weeks ago or a month ago. Because of changing conditions the guide may want to launch from a different part of the lake than originally planned. These types of communications are just too important.

I always bring my own tackle. Sometimes my own lures also. I know what I can do with my tackle and how it handles. Having a place to put an up to date calendar is great (as long as it is maintained up to date).

Guys I would like to clarify a few thing about ReserveFishing.com. They are very much alive and well and currently in the process of getting prepared to release a lot of changes to their program. Everyone will be seeing a lot of new things from them in upcoming months. They were able to successfully launch an incredible partnership with the World Fishing Network (http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/travel/fishing-guides ) that has triggered a lot of buzz in the industry as well catapulted their new partnership list with other companies. They also are trying to work thru their entire guide network and get all the guides a featured article on the WFN website for free ( http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/fishing-guides/ )be names soon that will be hard to rival. They have a huge announcement coming with one of the largest outdoor organizations in the US that will be awesome, it will potentially give a guide the ability to market for free on over 4400 websites. Personally, I signed up with them when they first started and it took some time to generate some trips but now I do get them. The one thing I can say is that they never promised trips but that they would market me and so far so good. The partnership list they have now is great and growing every day. I was a little confused about the calendar comment as they do have a calendar system inside the guide login section and you can even put a “book now” button on your own website to show your personal calendar. Ultimately it is the guides responsibility to keep that calendar up to date. We all know the challenge of that being on the water all day and not wanting to go back and do it.. Great news is the new guide phone app will be out very soon and it will be easy to do. This will also give your availability to all the partners website around the world.. Pretty cool.. You should give them a call and have them explain all this is going on.. Plus it is free to sign up for now and if they don’t book you a trip you don’t pay a dime, plus you will get the advertising on other sites for free…

I made the program well before ReserveFishing. Reserve fishing used the same idea and they have (or had) a staff of enthusiastic people to get guides listed and a budget to spend advertising dollars.
But they didn't make an interface for the guides to take off their unavailable days. So, the program just assumes that guides are available every day.

Funny thing, I just went to www.reservefishing.com and chose freshwater fishing, Texas, Lake Fork, noodling for shark on March 15, 2014

Aocording to their site, there are 8 guides available to noodle for shark on Lake Fork March 15.

Of course, I doubt any of those guides will be available on that day. My name is listed there and I know I'm not available.