Living the Dream Guide Service

Trips run out of Many, Louisiana onto Toledo Bend Reservoir, where the outfit’s roster of guides fishes for largemouth bass and crappie, and the same operation also books days on Sam Rayburn Reservoir. The guide roster splits by specialty: several guides fish bass exclusively, a couple work crappie only, and a few float between the two depending on what the client wants to target. Bass guides run standard bass boats, while some of the crappie trips go out on a pontoon boat instead, which gives clients more room to sit and fish brush and stake beds rather than stand and cast. Species on offer are largemouth bass and crappie, and clients can book either species-specific or ask a dual-species guide to mix a day between the two. Trips are booked directly with individual guides through the company’s online booking system rather than a single fixed itinerary, so timing and length are set at booking rather than published as a single package. The company also runs a marina on site with a fuel dock (non-ethanol fuel available by water) and small-bites concessions, open daily with extended summer hours, which functions as a staging point for anglers launching onto Toledo Bend.