Wild Bill’s Guide Service

Wild Bill’s Guide Service is Bill Bellinger’s operation at 311 North Lake Street in East Jordan, Michigan, with more than thirty years on the water and a phone answered on 231-675-2228. Beyond the river the business runs on the Manistee and on the region’s inland lakes, where smallmouth bass and crappie fill in around the trout and salmon calendar and where the Huron Boat Company jet sled it lists for that bigger water takes up to three anglers. It is a small owner-run outfit rather than a shop, which is the reason its night trips work at all: the schedule bends around when the fish are moving rather than around opening hours, and the client goes out with the owner rather than with an assigned guide.