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Welcome To Fish With Jim Outfitters

Big Winter SteelheadFish With Jim Outfitters has spent the time and done the research for you on the most productive rivers in Northern Ohio. As a professional guide service we know how important your time is and how a great experience on the river can give you a much needed release from your daily grind. Fish With Jim Outfitters will give you the tools and knowledge to be in the top 10% of anglers that catch 90% of the fish!

Fish With Jim Outfitters uses a different approach than most guides, giving you simple and easy instructions to detecting the bite, to setting the hook, to reading the river - resulting in “Fish On!” Our guides have spent countless hours learning tricks to enticing fish to bite on the river and can guarantee your best shot at having a successful day!

Jim is a friendly, enthusiastic guide who has served hundreds of happy fisher-people since 1998. Jim's fishing knowledge and love for the sport has consistently resulted in a successful day of fishing. Jim enjoys helping others catch fish as well as sharing the secrets that have given him a competitive edge over the competition. Your fishing party will be given Jim's personal attention and best effort to ensure a successful and enjoyable guided fishing experience.

Fishing Destinations

Fall Steelhead   Fall Steelhead Fishing - Starting in October Fish With Jim Outfitters offers quality guided trips in Northern Ohio and Pennsylvania's Steelhead Alley. Anglers can enjoy great days as this is the time when the London Strain of steelhead run the Lake Erie Tributaries. Walk and Wade or Float (Ohio Only) these great streams using a variety of techniques including; Center Pin, Spinning, Plug fishing and more...
     
WInter Steelhead   Wintertime Steelhead Fishing - In January and February fishing on steelhead alley can be very challenging due to the freezing of the major rivers. This means targeting steelhead in warm water discharges near Cleveland from either small power plants or water waste treatment plants. The fishing is fantastic!
     
Spring Steelhead   Spring Steelhead Fishing - The steelhead action continues in March and April just after ice out when thousands of Steelhead rush the rivers to spawn in Ohio. Anglers can enjoy huge days as this is the time when the bulk of the Little Manistee Strain of steelhead run the Ohio Streams. Float or Walk and Wade these great streams using a variety of techniques including; Center Pin, Spinning, Plug Fishing and more...
     
Maumee River Walleye   Maumee River Walleye Fishing - Fish With Jim Outfitters offers quality guided trips to Maumee River where the best eating game fish of the Great Lakes reside, walleye. These toothy critters are targeted with ultra-light gear making it a true sport-fishing experience.
     
Smallmouth Bass
  Spring/Summer Smallmouth Bass Fishing - Guided river fishing trips for Smallmouth Bass in Northeast Ohio's Lake Erie Tributaries. Smallmouth Bass is a great way to enjoy Northern Ohio's rivers and for the most part it's an overlooked hotspot. All of the Lake Erie Tributaries in Northern Ohio have both resident and lake-run Smallmouth from May throught August.
     
     
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Booking Your Trip

To expedite booking your trip we are asking you to fill out our contact us form. Please indicate what dates you are interested in along with all your contact information. We will be answering phone calls in the order they were recieved after we are off the water in the evenings and on our days off. Thank you for your patience and we look forward to fishing with you this season!

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Featured Articles

Surveying Ohio's Steelhead Scene
BY ERIC SHARP DETROIT FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER

Vermilion, Ohio, — Fish a river enough and you'll learn spots where you can almost guarantee a strike. Steelhead guide Jim Chamberlin had that feeling about a stony point jutting from a black shale cliff that plunged into the Vermilion River a few miles upstream from Lake Erie. Read More...

Pro Staff/Sponsors

Pro Staff and Sponsors Erie Outfitters Bait Tackle and Fly Shop NRS Simms Waders and Apperal Kingpin Center Pin Reels Wright & McGill


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