A fantastic day, thanks to Durwood, who was on-site hours before the trip to buy extra shiners. He was incredibly knowledgeable about where they fish would be and when they would bite, and incredibly patient with someone not used to fishing with live bait. Got dozens of bites, and netted bunch once I finally figured out the hook set. An awesome time that I cannot recommend strongly enough.

Good trip cut short due to rain and lightning

What could be more fun than fishing shiners in Lake Toho?  Catching bass in windy conditions when most people would not go out!  We had a fun after noon with Aaron even though he warned us that conditions were tough.  He found some leeward areas that were more than comfortable and we boated plenty of bass.  We didn’t get mister Big, but 3-4 pounders are fun too.

As very novice, inexperienced anglers, we originally just wanted an afternoon trip to enjoy the sunshine and catch the sunset but Captain Brent convinced us we would have better fishing in the morning and still see a great sunrise.  We are REALLY happy we took his advice.  We were first ones out on the lake at 5:30 a.m. and caught a lot of bass including the massive lunker Jan hooked and landed at sunrise.  The Captain was the best - PATIENT, knowledgeable, friendly, and pleasant he taught us well and we really appreciated his low key approach, sharing stories with him, and his skill.  It was WELL WORTH waking up early and the pontoon boat gave us plenty of space to sit, stand, cast, and shoot the breeze.