It’s getting close to that time again. Sept 2nd starts the opening of the Sturgeon season in our area.
I’m now booking dates for these powerful fish.
The same guidelines apply for sturgeon as for my catfish trips.
Check out my calendar on my website and book a date soon! 
Not sure who looks more pre-historic…. 
I admit it….
Two faces only a mother could love….
PS…Thanks for bringing that up Koot…I owe you. 
Thanks Kooty,
It’s good to know you got our backs. 
dave
Sounds like a good trip. I assume your guiding in your area for these monsters?? (miss, st. croix rivers?)
Please Do Not Delete This Post. It is meant in no way to hurt anyone’s feelings but it is meant to bring up a very serious subject.
How can someone who claims to be a guide take people out fishing for profit using technique and location when this information was taken from somebody else. Guides spend many years on the water hunting for new locations, trying new techniques, and learning their quarry. Guides do not catch fish for the first time one year and take people out fishing for money the next. Especially when somebody else showed them how to do it.
It would be like having a real guide take me out fishing for on the mississipi river for walleyes showing me a few places to fish, then taking clients out fishing in those same spots asking them to pay me for it the next year.
A real guide is out looking for new places, trying different baits, tackle set-ups, and proving your theories by catching fish.
And in no way am I exaggerating this situation.
Mike T.
St.Paul, MN
Since I’ve got little to lose here Mike, I’ll bite. You have made a very personal attack. We don’t do that to each other here. Unfounded accusations are not tolerated from even the most senior members of IDA. I strongly suggest you go to Brian’s website, get his phone number and call him.
I have yet to meet a guy on here who is as goofy, sincere and all around fun to know as BK. I love to rib the guy and he often gets even with me at the most unfortunate times. I wish I had more friends like him.
What you have done is uncalled for and very inappropriate!! There are plenty of other fishing sites on the net that like this junk, go there. 
I strongly disagree with your assumptions Mike T.
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How can someone who claims to be a guide take people out fishing for profit using technique and location when this information was taken from somebody else.
I am certain, since fishing has been around far longer than you or I or anyone on this or any other website, that anyone who guides utilizes information and technique that was obtained from someone else.
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Guides spend many years on the water hunting for new locations, trying new techniques, and learning their quarry.
Whether it takes many years is dependent upon the indivual doing the guiding. I will agree that time spent on the water is in the learning curve, however the proof of success is in the end product. If customers catch the fish they wanted to catch and enjoyed the time spent with their guide, then that guide trip was successful. If the trips are not successful then the guide would be out of business in a short period of time.
I haven’t had the pleasure of taking a guided trip with Brian yet, mostly due to a rather large distance of geographic separation, but I have only heard good things from those that have. I certainly hope to in the future, as I know he is a professional in his craft, and that is easily seen in the pictures of his success within these pages.
dave
Mike;
I really don’t quite understand your point.
Brian is fishing common sturgeon waters here. It is no secret spot. It isn’t any spot that really holds any “guide owned” locations.
However, Brian is offering to take people fishing up there, via supplying the boat, gear, and tackle. Also, I don’t believe Brian is a newbie at Sturgeon fishing either.
So;
my question to you is this:
How is Brian guiding up there, any different than ANY guide on Mille Lacs, the Mississippi river, LOTW, Leech, Etc, etc, etc? At one point in time or another, every guide out there acquired presentation and location information from other guides previous to them.
James was not the original guide to P4, nor was Hooks and Bobber original guides to Mille Lacs. This applies to every guide I know.
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How can someone who claims to be a guide take people out fishing for profit using technique and location when this information was taken from somebody else.
In regards to your question here.
I believe that about the only 3 people I know who actually, truly discovered a technique or location for fish would be:
1) Buck Perry
2) Al Linder
3) Ron Linder
I would honestly believe that every other fisherman out there has discovered the location an presentation from others and developed that information further.
I would bet money that these 3 actually pioneered the Location and Presentation for people to find fish.
One thing I would like to point out is that Brian may have just started getting paid for guided trips this year; but Brian has been “guiding” for a number of years. I had the distinct pleasure of fishing with Brian a year ago on pool 3. I didn’t have to bring a darn thing and I had a great time. I wondered then why he wasn’t doing this for a living. He is a great guy and a lot of fun to fish with. I wish Brian nothing but success!
dd
Mike T,
Why would you come on here and hammer a guide or guides? They aren’t forcing anyone to pay them for a trip.
It just seems to me like you want to try and get people .Not cool my friend not cool at all.
Mike T:
If you don’t think that you could learn something by fishing with Brian for an evening, then you are a FAR better fisherman than me.
As a walleye guy, I know next to nothing about catfishing, except that they get in the way when I’m going for eyes. I would enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to fish with a cat/sturgeon specialist, like Brian, and learn something new about cats and new about fishing in general. But that’s just me….
You have a very simply alternative to attacking Brian here….don’t hire him! That will leave more days for Brian to take out customers and friends who appreciate his time and knowledge.
PS Brian….will you please take me fishing for one of those prehistoric beasts? I would honestly and truly like to go!
Wow Mike T, I am a little confused as to why you feel it neccessary to call Brian out in public like this. We have a great fisherman on this site who is more than willing to share information with everyone here and you call him out in public? I just don’t get it. I can’t help but think that if you as a “sportsman” had beef with a guy it would be much better handled by talking to him in private. Maybe that’s just me though. I know there are 2 sides to every story, but you have handled this situation very poorly.
~SKINEBOY~
Mike T,
I just love it when people think that there good spots on a body of water or techniques are such a big secret. If it is a good spot, hundreds know of it and have fished it. As far as riggings/techniques, I have a book that was handed down to me from my Grandfather that has every walleye, catfish, bass, and so on rig ever used. I crack up when I hear there is something new. It’s not, most the times the name of a rig or technique is all that changed.
So I don’t have any idea where you think you are coming from. And if your out to do your own thing, find your own spots, rigs whatever, what you doing here? The reason I’m here is to take up good info and use it to put me one step ahead of the rest. Just like it will be for me Cattin’ with Brian, I will be there to soak up as much of his knowledge as I can and put it to good use!!!!!!
I myself can’t wait to spend time in the boat with Brian next year. Yep I’m in the book 
I don’t think you could ever meet a nicer dude! All you have to do is check out any pictures and read the responses from people that have had the opportunity to spend time with him. That says it all.
Bret
You gotta be kidding me – Mike T’s diatribe sounds like sour grapes to me.
Wow, just wow….
I for one support those who fish, and can do so for a living…
ALL the glamore of being a fishing guide, the nice hours, the big pay, the fame and money how could anyone not be jealous. Heck they “just fish” for a living how hard could that be? Sounds like a dream job, with no pressure… I’m sure guides just go out and magically find monster fish of a lifetime every trip. You’d think they get tired hauling in 100+ fish each day. Ahhh All play not work, what’s not to love about the glamourous job. 
You’ll never get me to try and bash anyone who goes out and works for thier money, be it at Mc.Donalds or on the Football ball field, or even on the water, nor complain about the money they make doing so.
My Grandpa, and my father taught me to fish, many, many people here have taught me to be better, I too must then be a fishing fraud.
I agree with Kooty 100%. Unbelievable. Who is this Mike T and why is he off his meds?
This kind of childish behavior is what takes the fun out of fishing. Who really cares how Brian fishes as long as everyone with him is having fun doing so. And if he is supplying the boat alone he has the right to request a fee unless someone knows where we can find free gas. But from what it sounds not only is the boat supplied the tackle as well. Plus if I could go out with a guy and have fun with a chance better then I would alone then hey I would pay up. It is just no fun seeing someone attacked without hearing exactly why and what reasonings for it but again this is something that sounds like it should be taken to Brian personally. There will always be someone trying to wreck the fun of fishing. 
I’m personally more than a little disgusted…… This is a personal attack on one of the nicest guys I’ve had the privelege to meet. Anyone who knows Brian knows that he’s a class act. Brian could, (being a guide a garnering income from his fishing spots), zip his lips and not share any information with anyone. Stop in at Everts’ and he’ll put you on whatever catfish bite is working. Jason hit it on the head, if you don’t like the idea don’t hire him. I don’t think anyone should cast derision at a guide without first fishing with him, or at least speaking to his customers. This june I talked to a guy who caught a 58 pound flat and a 29 inch walleye in BrianK’s boat in the same night. He hadn’t slept in something like thirty hours and was still on cloud nine. My point here is that you can ask anyone who knows BrianK, he’s an oustanding fisherman, an outstanding guide, and one hell of a good man. Don’t know if you’re swinging a bat at this hornet’s nest on purpose buddy, but you picked the wrong guy to level a personal attack at. Knock it of, or do it somewhere else. If you’re not going to play nice, nobody here wants to play with you, nuff said.
I feel that I should stick up a little for BrianK. He took mt father and I out for a Catfishing trip. We had the time of our lives and Brian was the picture of professionalism. After that trip, I got the catfishing bug, but don’t seem to have the knowledge to continually catch fish, so in my mind one trip cannot make you a fisherman. 
The way I look at it, I can learn something from absolutely anyone I fish with, as they know more then me about something. I am sure Brian has picked up tricks from many people over the years, and uses this “extended knowledge” in his business. Is it wrong that he picked up some of this knowledge from a guide in the past, Hell no.
I think in the future, you need to stop and remind youself where we all came from, and if it was not for numerous people helping us along the way, we would not be the fisherman we all are. One day does not make a fisherman or a person, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Unless MikeT and BrianK are in fact the 
same person, and Brian needed a little pick me up 
It looks as though all points have been made, so it’s time to throw a lock on this post and move on.
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