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Posted on March 5, 2009Please place your testimonials about me and Stripers Inc. here.Thanks,
Brian Prichard
August 9, 2009
Don Ferguson
Hi. My name is Don and this is my first time to post. I have thoroughly enjoyed for a couple of years reading your comments and suggestions especially from you guides on how, when, and where to do certain things to catch Stripers. But I am not posting to ask anything of you or to tell you anything but to share an experience that I had on the water a few days ago. Im one of those fishermen that have to be on the water chasing stripers almost every weekend and sometimes twice a week. I took my first guide trip a few weekends ago and booked two trips with the guide. My family and fishing buddies thought I had lost my mind. For 27 straight years I chartered the Captain Bob out of Panama City, Florida, fishing for snapper and goliath grouper but had never booked a fresh water charter or guide trip. But I have been reading you guys day after day, month after month and like most of you if I cant be on the water I just want to read about those who are. A young man caught my attention and I found myself looking for his posts. I read all you guys but I found myself reading and re-reading his posts. So I picked up the phone and after talking to him for the first time I booked not just one but two trips.
I wasnt just looking to catch fish. I was looking for the whole experience. I wanted not just a good but a great guided trip and I wasnt going to be easy to please. Let me tell you, fishing with Brian Prichard Stripers Inc was not a disappointment. It was not like fishing with a guide, but a friend. We laughed and he cried because I mostly did my own thing and drove him nuts. He would stop and say twelve to fifteen pulls but he found me going down to the bottom and slowly cranking up until I would catch. Normally the fish would be in the 8 to 10 lb range. Then the rod and the holder thingI wanted to hold the rod to feel the bite but naturally I would try to set the hook too soon. With circle hooks as you know the fish would, as Brian would say, commit suicide. But invariably I would strike too soon. Most guides would have thrown me overboard to swim to shore and tell me to walk back to port. But not Brian, he just laughed and called me the headedest person he knew and went back to fishing with my buddy and catching fish. It didnt seem to take me very long to catch on to the circle hook thing and I was catching fish with the rest of them. For me, remember, it was the experience. I mostly fish lures but have come to love the bait fishing thing.
On the second trip, July 29, a storm literally chased us off the water. He docked us in an empty slip in his dads marina. What happened next made me scratch my head a little but it really didnt surprise me. He told us to follow him to his dads slip where he proceeded to fix a pot of coffee, not that he wanted a cup but he wanted us to have one, and then apologized that there was no sugar. My fishing buddy and I didnt complain about no sugar but Brian proceeded to search a family friends slip for sugar and came up with two small Hershey bars for our coffee. When the rain slacked he said lets go fishing. He turned around and looked at me and asked Where is your rain suit? I said, I really dont need one and dont want one but he said, Yes, you do. He proceeded to pull out his dads rain suit and handed it to me and found something for my friend.
I said that to say this, it is no wonder we want to fish with Brian. He always finds bait for you and in July and August he finds big fish and in numbers too. Fishing with Brian was no disappointment. It was not like fishing with a guide but a friend.
In the weeks before time to take the trips with Brian, my fishing buddies cornered me and asked me why I was taking these trips with this guide. It was many things that I had read in his posts. But what really clinched it for me was realizing that here is a young man with a college degree but he chooses to be a striper guide. I believe it cant just be the love of the sport. It has to be more than that and I believe it is a passion for the sport. My friend and I who fished with him saw that and experienced his passion. Thank you, Brian Prichard.
I have booked two trips with him in September, a birthday gift from my family and fishing buddies.
If you book with Brian you wont be disappointed
I wasnt just looking to catch fish. I was looking for the whole experience. I wanted not just a good but a great guided trip and I wasnt going to be easy to please. Let me tell you, fishing with Brian Prichard Stripers Inc was not a disappointment. It was not like fishing with a guide, but a friend. We laughed and he cried because I mostly did my own thing and drove him nuts. He would stop and say twelve to fifteen pulls but he found me going down to the bottom and slowly cranking up until I would catch. Normally the fish would be in the 8 to 10 lb range. Then the rod and the holder thingI wanted to hold the rod to feel the bite but naturally I would try to set the hook too soon. With circle hooks as you know the fish would, as Brian would say, commit suicide. But invariably I would strike too soon. Most guides would have thrown me overboard to swim to shore and tell me to walk back to port. But not Brian, he just laughed and called me the headedest person he knew and went back to fishing with my buddy and catching fish. It didnt seem to take me very long to catch on to the circle hook thing and I was catching fish with the rest of them. For me, remember, it was the experience. I mostly fish lures but have come to love the bait fishing thing.
On the second trip, July 29, a storm literally chased us off the water. He docked us in an empty slip in his dads marina. What happened next made me scratch my head a little but it really didnt surprise me. He told us to follow him to his dads slip where he proceeded to fix a pot of coffee, not that he wanted a cup but he wanted us to have one, and then apologized that there was no sugar. My fishing buddy and I didnt complain about no sugar but Brian proceeded to search a family friends slip for sugar and came up with two small Hershey bars for our coffee. When the rain slacked he said lets go fishing. He turned around and looked at me and asked Where is your rain suit? I said, I really dont need one and dont want one but he said, Yes, you do. He proceeded to pull out his dads rain suit and handed it to me and found something for my friend.
I said that to say this, it is no wonder we want to fish with Brian. He always finds bait for you and in July and August he finds big fish and in numbers too. Fishing with Brian was no disappointment. It was not like fishing with a guide but a friend.
In the weeks before time to take the trips with Brian, my fishing buddies cornered me and asked me why I was taking these trips with this guide. It was many things that I had read in his posts. But what really clinched it for me was realizing that here is a young man with a college degree but he chooses to be a striper guide. I believe it cant just be the love of the sport. It has to be more than that and I believe it is a passion for the sport. My friend and I who fished with him saw that and experienced his passion. Thank you, Brian Prichard.
I have booked two trips with him in September, a birthday gift from my family and fishing buddies.
If you book with Brian you wont be disappointed