Captain Richie Gaines has been guiding professionally in the Chesapeake Bay region for twenty years. His experience, easygoing style, and humor have earned him a reputation as one of the top light tackle and fly fishing guides on the Chesapeake. A good guide should be part fish, teacher, and coach with a bit of stand-up comic thrown in and Richie has all of these attributes. Catching fish is certainly the primary goal, but learning and improving techniques and tactics while having fun is an added bonus when you fish with Richie. Remember, knowledge has no value unless it is shared.

Richie has been featured in numerous local, regional, and national print media and on television shows such as ESPN’s “North American Outdoors” OLN’s “Sport Fishing Magazine” and “Fishing With Roland Martin”. He is active on the seminar circuit, conducting many “how to” seminars each year at such venues as the annual Sport Fishing & Boat show in Timonium, MD, George Poveromo’s Saltwater Fishing Seminar Series, CCA and MSSA meetings, and has even taught fishing classes at Chesapeake College.

Richie is a member of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), a founding member and President of the Chesapeake Guides Association, and was appointed by the Governor to the Maryland Sport Fishing Advisory Commission where he serves as Vice Chairman. Richie is also a member of the elite Lowrance Electronics “Super Pro Staff”.