If it is your first time on this river, a guide is the difference between a story and a long cold morning. Here is what a day actually costs, what to ask before you hand over a deposit, and who has a listing here.
A drift boat reaches water nobody can walk to and is the better call in high flows. Walk-and-wade costs less and teaches you water you can fish again without him.
Releases and rain can make a day unfishable. Ask the reschedule and refund policy in writing before you pay, not the morning of.
Most guides here run all three, but everyone has a preference. Say what you want to learn so you are not handed a rod you did not come for.
New York licenses its guides. A working guide will tell you their number without hesitating. Anyone who dodges the question is answering it.
A fair question on this river. If you want fish hooked in the mouth, say so up front — and know that a guide who says the same is telling you something about how the day will go.
Usually a shop parking lot in Pulaski, in the dark, well before first light. Get the address the week before, not the night before.
Two or three honest sentences in your own words — what you run, who you fish with, and what a day with you is actually like. No marketing voice required.