Grateful Guides

01/27/2026

Crooked Island, Bahamas

12/29/2025

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12/29/2025

Incredible day on the bay with Hammer and Muvinhammer!
Mikey with is biggest fish of his life ! Congratulations on a 40 in Striper !!!
We highly recommend Griffin's Guide Service LLC for your light tackle fishing on the Chesapeake Bay!

12/23/2025

Great day on the Chesapeake Bay with Griffin's Guide Service LLC 's Guide Service. Andy , Roger and I had a blast today . Its a rare occasion that we all get to fish together these days, so when it happens its very special !

12/21/2025

Another epic trip in the books with Mike Iaconelli practicing for the BASS Elite Series event coming up in Guntersville, Alabama !
We started off with ice in some of the coves, which i didn't even know happened much in Alabama . Lol
We fished from sunrise to sundown for 4 straight days with freezing cold temperatures . Thursday it rained all day long and the wind picked up as a big front approached the whole east coast !
I looked at my phone and showed Mike the radar and we did 80 mph back to the ramp . We got the boat on the trailer in the nick of time before all hell broke loose in the dark of course lol.
We had a good mix of fishing and scouting the lake and each day we wree able to catch some nice fish .
The amount of work it takes to be one of the elites is unfathomable to most fisherman including myslef . Before Mike invited me along to practice for thsoe events I had no idea what it takes to compete at that level .
To say it is a learning experience os an understatement.
Ive learned so much about mapping , 2D sonar ' down scan ' sife scan, Google Earth even breaking out old school paper maps at night and looking at them for tomorrow over couple cold Sierra Nevadas lol . The learning just never stops when you are with him . We even watched old videos of events at Guntersville that he was in while looking at maps ! Lol
Hes even won here in the past and had a couple top 20 finishes as well I believe and still learning !
Going out into the towns are fun for me ro explore BBQ joints and sample so local beers !
The last time ive even been to Alabama was in 1990s seeing the Grateful Dead !
Thanks again Mike for a real good time !!

12/11/2025

12/09/2025

Listening to the boys and catching bass !!!

12/06/2025

Day 2 of Paul and Dana's river smallmouth adventures with yours truly !
Bite got a little tougher on day 2 for us but we kept bumping and grinding and recycling old information out of my old brain and found some more fish that were somewhere cooperative!
People say, " I wish I knew what you forgot!" Hell I wish I knew half of the information I forgot! Lol
Teaser Tubes and ned rigged soft plastics available from Backroom Baits and Snagler Tackle Company were best baits . We did manage to trick a few on Rapala Xraps but had to force the issue !
The bite can change alot from day to day . Heck it can change from hour to hour depending on conditions ! Come to the river with a game plan and be willing to scrap it in an hour if need be on any particular day .
Pack it up and see what tomorrow brings?!

12/05/2025

Day 1 of Paul amd Dana's river smallmouth adventures with Grateful Guides!
They arent everywhere they should be this time of year , but when you find them it's game on!
Teaser tubes available from Backroom Baits and Snagler Tackle Company were the best soft baits for us and Rapala xraps were the best hard baits !
You can go to your local tackle shop and buy every new bait that comes down the pike and spend 1000s of dollars of you desire !
If you want to catch a few thousand bass a year on the baits that I make a living on , all you really need are teaser tubes , jointed jerks and soft platic stick baits avaiable at an reasonable price from Backroom Baits and Snagler Tackle Company and Rapala xraps ! Rapala xraps and shadow raps are some of the most affordable jerkbaits on the market and are absolutely deadly on river smallmouth! I make a living with these baits and have been for over 20 years !
Thank you for supporting the tackle companies that support me !
Pack it up and what tomorrow brings?!

12/04/2025