Draft. To be reviewed by counsel before launch. Last updated 6 September 2026.
Who you are dealing with
guidedfloats.com is operated by Guided Floats, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company. In these terms, “GuidedFloats”, “we” and “us” mean Guided Floats, LLC, and any agreement you make by using the service is with that company.
Guided Floats, LLC
7918 Bradford Pear Lane
Patton, MO 63662
United States
hello@guidedfloats.com
The service
GuidedFloats.com lists fishing waters, conditions data, guide and outfitter profiles, angler recognition programs, and community content. Conditions data is provisional and provided as-is; never rely on a single number for safety decisions.
By using the service you accept these terms. If you are using it on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to accept them for that business.
What GuidedFloats is, and what it is not
GuidedFloats is a marketplace and a directory. We publish water pages, we publish guide and outfitter profiles, and we pass enquiries and booking requests between anglers and the businesses listed on the site.
We are not a guide, an outfitter, a charter operator, an insurer, or a travel agent, and we do not sell trips. We do not employ, contract, supervise, train, schedule, or control any guide or outfitter listed here. They are independent businesses. Nothing on this site makes a guide our employee, agent, partner, or joint venturer, and nothing on this site makes us a party to the trip you book.
Except where a profile expressly says we have checked something, we do not independently verify a guide’s licences, permits, insurance, vessel, safety equipment, qualifications, or the accuracy of anything they publish about themselves. Listing is not endorsement, and placement on a page is not a safety rating.
Accounts and content
You are responsible for content you post. By posting photos or text you confirm you have the right to do so and grant GuidedFloats a license to display them on the service. We remove content that infringes rights or breaks these terms.
You are responsible for keeping your account details accurate and your password to yourself, and for anything done through your account.
Profiles built from public records
Unclaimed guide and outfitter profiles are compiled from public licensing records, permit lists, tourism listings, and business websites. They show business-level facts only. Any business may claim, correct, or request removal of its profile at any time using the forms on the profile.
Booking a trip: who contracts with whom
When you book a trip through GuidedFloats, the contract for that trip is between you and the guide or outfitter. It is their trip, on their boat or their water, run to their terms, at a price they set. We are the intermediary that carries the request, takes the deposit, and takes a commission on the booking.
The guide sets the trip price, what is included, the meeting point, the cancellation window, and their own conditions of carriage or trip terms. Where those terms are shown to you before you book, they apply to your trip alongside these terms. Where a guide’s terms conflict with these terms, these terms govern your relationship with us, and the guide’s terms govern the trip itself.
Fishing, wading, boating and floating carry real risk of injury and death, including from cold water, high or falling flow, dams and their releases, strainers, weather, and equipment failure. You take that risk on yourself and with your guide. A guide may require you to sign their own waiver, and may refuse or end a trip on safety grounds. Any claim arising out of a trip is against the guide or outfitter who ran it.
Deposits and payments
Booking on GuidedFloats works by request. You send a request, the guide accepts or declines it, and a booking exists only once the guide has accepted and any deposit has been taken.
Deposits are taken through our payment processor. We do not hold or see your full card details. The processor’s own terms apply to the payment, and the deposit is applied to the trip price. Unless the guide tells you otherwise before you book, the balance is settled directly with the guide.
Booking and payment are not yet enabled on the site. Until they are, profiles carry enquiry forms rather than a checkout, and the detailed booking, deposit and payout terms will be published on this page before the feature is switched on.
Cancellations, weather and refunds
Each guide publishes their own cancellation window and refund terms, and those are the terms that decide whether a cancelled trip is refunded. We do not set them and we cannot overrule them.
If a guide cancels a trip, or cannot run it because of conditions, closure, or their own circumstances, they are responsible for the refund or the reschedule on the terms they published. If a trip is cancelled and the deposit is still with our processor, we will return it to you or release it to the guide according to those published terms.
Rivers and lakes are not reliable. High water, low water, ice, wildfire smoke, lightning, dam operations, and agency closures all cancel trips, and none of them are within anyone’s control. Whether a weather or conditions cancellation is refundable is a matter for the guide’s terms, and it is worth reading them before you book.
Where you believe a guide has not honoured their own published terms, tell us. We can raise it with them and, where we hold a deposit, we can decline to release it while the point is open. We are not a claims adjuster, we do not arbitrate between you, and we cannot guarantee an outcome.
What guides and outfitters agree to
If you claim a profile or list a business on GuidedFloats, you agree that, for every trip you advertise or accept through this site:
- you hold, maintain, and can produce on request every licence, registration, permit, endorsement and captain’s credential that the state, federal, tribal or land-management authority requires for the water you run and the way you run it;
- you carry liability insurance appropriate to your operation, and any coverage a permit or a landowner requires of you, and you keep it current;
- you hold any special-use, concession, outfitter or guide permit needed for the access points, launches, and public land or water you use;
- you operate a vessel and carry safety equipment that meets the law where you run;
- the facts on your profile — the waters you run, the species, the boats, the prices, the availability and anything you say about your credentials — are true, current, and yours to publish, and you correct them promptly when they change;
- you respond to enquiries and booking requests honestly and within the response expectations shown on your plan, and you keep your calendar accurate;
- you honour bookings you accept and the cancellation terms you publish;
- you tell us promptly if a licence, permit or insurance lapses, is suspended, or is revoked, and you stop accepting bookings through the site until it is back in force.
You are responsible for your own tax, employment, and regulatory compliance. We do not withhold or remit tax on your behalf beyond what our payment processor is required to do.
Nothing here is exclusive. You are free to advertise anywhere else and to book your own clients directly, and we charge no commission on bookings that did not come through this site.
Angler contact details
When an angler sends you an enquiry or a booking request, we pass you their name and contact details so you can answer it. That information is given to you for that purpose.
You may use it to respond to the enquiry, to arrange and deliver the trip, and to follow up on that trip. You may not add it to a marketing list without that person’s consent, sell it, share it with anyone who is not helping you run the trip, or keep it longer than you need it. You are responsible for complying with the privacy and marketing law that applies to you. How we handle the same information is set out in our privacy policy.
Commission, plans and billing
GuidedFloats makes money two ways, and both are published openly on our pricing page: a commission on bookings made through the service, and an optional subscription plan for guides and outfitters. The current commission rates, plan prices, and what each plan includes are on that page. They are not repeated here so that there is only one place they can be wrong.
Commission is charged on bookings made through the service, at the rate published for your plan on the day the booking is accepted. It is not charged on trips you book directly, off the platform.
Plans renew automatically for the same period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time; your plan then runs to the end of the period you have already paid for and does not renew. We do not refund part-periods unless we have told you otherwise in writing. If we change a plan price or a commission rate, we will publish the change and give you notice before it takes effect, and for a plan the change applies from your next renewal — you can cancel before then if you would rather not accept it.
Where we have offered a free introductory season to founding guides, that offer is what it says on the pricing page. We will not invoice a founding guide before the traffic and lead reporting that justifies the plan is actually available to them in their dashboard, and we will give at least 60 days’ notice before the first invoice.
Downgrading or ending a plan changes what your profile gets — the number of waters it appears on, how quickly leads reach you, and where it sits on a water page — from the end of the paid period. Your profile itself, and your reviews, stay.
Placement and ranking
Profiles on a water page are ordered by tier: premium and outfitter profiles first, then claimed free profiles, then unclaimed profiles. Paying moves you above free profiles, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. It never moves you above another premium profile. There is no bidding and no auction. Premium is one published price, and there is no way to buy a position better than the one that price already includes.
What premium buys is distribution and speed: more water pages to appear on, and leads delivered without the delay applied to free profiles. Inside a tier, order is set by reviews, response time, and calendar accuracy. Those are the only inputs, and they are the only way to move ahead of a guide on the same plan.
We may change how ordering works as the marketplace grows. If we do, we will change this section and the pricing page together, and the description on this page is the one that governs.
Conditions data, gauges and safety
This is the most important section on this page. Read it before you use a number from this site to decide anything.
The conditions we publish — discharge, stage, pool elevation, water temperature and everything derived from them — come from third-party public sources, principally the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We pass those readings through, we do not measure anything ourselves, and we do not correct or second-guess the agency that published them.
Those readings are provisional. The publishing agency can revise them, correct them, or withdraw them at any time, and it does. A gauge can be out of service, out of calibration, buried in ice, or reporting a value that is simply wrong. A feed can stall, and a number that looks current can be hours or days old.
So: every reading we show carries the time it was taken, and that timestamp is part of the reading. We do not publish a flow, a level or a temperature without it, and you should not use one without it. If the timestamp is old, treat the number as history rather than as conditions.
A gauge is a point on a river, not the river. The gauge that feeds a water page can sit miles above or below where you plan to fish, above or below a confluence, a dam, or a diversion, and read a materially different flow from the one in front of you. Some waters here have no working gauge at all; those pages say so, and say what to watch instead. The absence of a number is not a statement that conditions are safe.
Water on a dammed river changes without warning. Releases start and stop on an operating schedule that is not ours, and flow can rise fast and without a siren. Nothing on this site predicts a release.
We do not forecast, we do not issue warnings, and we are not an emergency service. Our conditions pages are background reading, not a go or no-go decision. Before you go on the water, check the operating agency, the land manager, and the current local forecast, talk to someone who was there recently, and make your own judgment about your party and your equipment. If you are fishing with a guide, their judgment on the day governs.
Regulations
Fishing regulations are set by state and federal agencies. GuidedFloats links to them and does not restate them. You are responsible for knowing the rules where you fish.
Reviews
Reviews are one of the inputs that order profiles within a tier, so they have to be real. Write a review only for a trip you actually took, from your own experience, in your own words.
Do not write, buy, trade, solicit or incentivise a review of your own business, and do not review a competitor. Do not offer anything of value in exchange for a review or for its removal, and do not condition any part of a trip on the review that follows it. We remove reviews that break these rules, and we may remove a profile or a plan over a pattern of it.
We do not edit reviews to make them kinder. We may remove one that is unlawful, abusive, off-topic, contains someone else’s personal information, or is plainly not about a trip. A business may reply to a review on its profile.
Acceptable use
Use the site for finding water, finding guides, and running a guiding business on it. Do not:
- post anything unlawful, abusive, harassing, hateful, deceptive, or infringing, or anything that identifies another person without their consent;
- impersonate a person or a business, or claim a profile that is not yours;
- publish content that encourages breaking fishing, boating, access or wildlife law;
- scrape, crawl, bulk-copy, resell or redistribute the directory, profile data, waterway content, or conditions data, or use it to build a competing listing, beyond what a published API or a written agreement with us allows;
- use automated tools against the site in a way that degrades it, or work around rate limits, access controls or security;
- send unsolicited commercial messages through the site’s forms or to contact details found on it;
- upload malware, or attempt to gain access to any account, system or data that is not yours.
The waterway content, page structure, code, design and compiled directory on this site are ours or our licensors’. Public agency data we republish belongs to the agency that published it and is subject to that agency’s terms.
Suspension and removal
We can remove content, unlist or remove a profile, cancel a plan, or close an account where we reasonably believe these terms have been broken, where a required licence, permit or insurance is not in force, where there is a credible safety or fraud concern, or where the law requires it. Where it is practical and appropriate we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right; where there is a risk to someone we may act immediately.
You can stop using the service at any time, and a business can ask to have its profile removed at any time using the forms on the profile.
Disclaimer of warranties
The service, and everything on it, is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that conditions data will be accurate, current, complete or available, that a gauge will be working, that a listing is accurate, that a guide is licensed, insured, permitted, competent or available, or that a trip will meet your expectations. Any decision you make on the strength of something you read here is yours.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, GuidedFloats is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost bookings, lost data, or loss of goodwill, however caused and on any theory of liability.
To the fullest extent the law allows, and except where a trip you took was one we ran ourselves — which we do not do — we are not liable for injury, death, property damage, or loss arising out of a trip, a guide’s act or omission, a decision made on the water, or the state of any water, however you came to be there.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims connected with the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred United States dollars.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our own negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions, and in those places these limits apply only as far as that jurisdiction allows.
Indemnity
You will indemnify Guided Floats, LLC and its members, officers and staff against claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising out of content you post, your use of the service, your breach of these terms or of the law, and — if you are a guide or an outfitter — out of the trips you advertise, accept or run.
Resolving disputes
A dispute between an angler and a guide is between those two. Raise it with the other party first. We will help where we can, and where we hold a deposit we can hold it while the point is open, but we do not decide the dispute and we are not a party to it.
If you have a dispute with us, tell us before you file anything. Write to hello@guidedfloats.com with your name, what happened, and what you want, and give us 30 days to work it out. Most things end there. That step does not stop either of us from going to a small-claims court in the meantime, or from asking a court for an injunction to protect intellectual property or stop misuse of the service.
If it is not resolved in those 30 days, it goes to court, in the venue set out below.
Governing law
These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of the service, are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Missouri are the venue for any such dispute, and you and Guided Floats, LLC each consent to their jurisdiction.
General
These terms, together with our privacy policy and any plan or booking terms published on the site, are the whole agreement between you and us about the service. If any part of them is held unenforceable, the rest stands. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given it up. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours to a successor to the business. Nobody other than you and us has rights under these terms.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the service changes. The current version is always on this page, with the date it was last updated at the top. Material changes will be flagged on the site.
Contact and notices
Questions about these terms, and formal notices to Guided Floats, LLC, go to hello@guidedfloats.com or to Guided Floats, LLC, 7918 Bradford Pear Lane, Patton, MO 63662, United States.