Meet Your Guide
I love fishing for bass, especially smallmouth! I caught my first smallmouth in the summer of 1987 while I was wading the South Branch of the Potomac River in western Maryland, where it winds its way through the beautiful Allegheny Mountains. I was immediately drawn to the aggressive nature and beauty of the fish. I spent countless days over the next three years chasing smallies on the shallow South Branch, learning all I could about where they live and how they feed. And I started reading every magazine and book I could get my hands on, wanting to learn everything I could about catching bass.
While doing all of that reading I learned about how fantastic the smallmouth fishing was on Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. In 1990 an employment opportunity came up in the Detroit area – right in the heart of smallmouth country - and I jumped at the chance to re-locate. One year later I had my first boat and the game was on. Since then my love for smallmouth fishing has turned into a passion, almost bordering on an obsession. It never gets boring and I just can’t get enough.
As your guide, my goal is to teach you how to catch more fish. 
Your day will be a hands-on fishing experience. You will learn why we are using a particular lure or technique and I will teach you how to do it if you don’t know how. By the end of the day, you will have learned something that you can take with you to help you catch more bass on this fantastic fishery.
Fishing Accomplishments:
I started fishing bass tournaments on Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie in 1994. Since then I have accumulated several club-level tournament wins on these waters, as well as high finishes in numerous team tournaments.
I have been a regular competitor in the Michigan Division of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League since 1996. In that time I have earned three top 10 finishes, numerous top 20’s and a Big Bass Award.
In 2007, my partner and I won the 9th Annual Wonderland Marine West Open Team Tournament on the Detroit River – the biggest team tournament held in southeast Michigan. We weighed a five bass limit of 25lbs. 15oz., which included a 6lb. monster smallmouth. You can read how we did it by clicking HERE.
In 2006 I caught two of the top five fish registered in the Michigan DNR Master Angler Award Program in the catch-and-release category. They weighed 6lbs. 13oz. and 7lbs. even, and measured 23” and 23 ½” respectively. These same two fish were also the first and second biggest smallmouth entered in the In-Fisherman’s 2006 Master Angler Program for catch-and-release in this region.