Chuck Emery Pro Guides

Chuck Emery guides Leech Lake full time and lives on the water he fishes, which is the argument the service makes for itself. Trips are run from a Ranger boat with a 175 horsepower Mercury Verado and current Lowrance electronics and GPS; life jackets, bait, rods, reels and gas are included, fish cleaning is complimentary and the operation is fully insured. A full day is 525 dollars for one or two anglers and 550 for three, a three-quarter day 475 and 500, a half day 375 and 400. Twenty-five dollars comes off for a party including anyone seventeen or under, and the same again for active duty military or veterans. The season has a shape he publishes: three or four weeks of jig and shiner in spring before switching to a Lindy rig with a leech or crawler, crankbaits trolled on the rocks and spinner and crawler combinations over rock and sand flats through summer, then back to a light jig and minnow on shallow wind-blown rocks in autumn.