NAME: Mark Taylor

AGE: 35

GUIDING EXPERIENCE: 13 years.

PRACTICAL BASS FISHING EXPERIENCE: 28 years

TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE : 25 years.

PHILOSOPHY ON GUIDING : Guiding people is just as much an art form as fishing and it takes time to learn how to teach. The ultimate satisfaction for any guide that truly loves their job is to see their clients have a great fishing experience and maybe catch the fish of a lifetime. That is what it is all about for me. My goal is to make you a client for life, not for a day. I make a living teaching people to fish and there is nothing better than that.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD GUIDE : First of all, you have to love fishing. Spending time on the water and be well informed is still the only way to stay in tune to the fishing, I go the extra mile to give you the best fishing experience under any conditions.

PHILOSOPHY ON BASS FISHING : Think outside of the box. I love to modify lures and create new techniques based on how fish are relating to their prey. As far as big bass are concerned, I don't fish them like little bass, because they have been conditioned to boat pressure and they do not typically live or feed in normal places where most anglers fish. Bass are always feeding somewhere on the lake, sometimes you have to get creative to find out where what when and how. Using variations of old school and new techniques combined with high end tackle, rods, reels, sonar and GPS is how you stay in tune. You have to put your time on the water period. 

SPECIALY TECHNIQUES : Specializing in Finesse techniques; including drop shotting, split shotting, darter heads, Texas rigging, Carolina rigging. Teaching clients about Structure fishing with football head jigs. All sizes and styles of Swimbaits, topwater, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, Buzzbaits.

TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS :

• 1st place American Bass Association Lake Castaic February 23rd 2002.
• Tournament Big Fish
• 1st place American Bass Association Lake Casitas June 15th 2002.
• #46.20lb limit. *Current A.B.A. record for a 5 fish limit
• 1st place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas June 29th 2002
• #36.38lb limit
• 1st place Anglers Choice Lake Cachuma February 8th 2003
• 1st place American Bass Association Lake Casitas June 14th 2003.
• Tournament Big Fish
• 1st place Anglers Choice Lake Cachuma September 6th 2003
• 1st place American Bass Association Lake Castaic April 24th 2004
• 1st place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas June 26th 2004
• 1st place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas July 19th 2008
• 2nd place Western Outdoor News Lake Castaic November 20th 1999
• 2nd place Western Outdoor News Lake Pyramid February 16 2002
• Tournament Big Fish
• 2nd place Anglers Choice Lake Cachuma September 7th 2003
• 2nd place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas July 10th 2004
• 2nd place Anglers Choice Lake Cachuma September 11th 2004
• Tournament Big Fish
• 2nd place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas July 28th 2007
• 2nd place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas February 16th 2008
• 2nd place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas May 4th 2009
• 2nd place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas December 19th 2009
• 3rd place American Bass Association Lake Cachuma Fish-off 1992
• 3rd place American Bass Association Lake Cachuma February 3rd 2001
• 3rd place American Bass Association Lake Cachuma July 19th 2003
• 3rd place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas July 15th 2006
• 3rd place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas August 19th 2006
• 3rd place J&T Tackle series Lake Casitas August 11th 2007
• 4th place West Coast Bass Lake Cachuma January 29th 2000
• 4th place Western Outdoor News Lake Cachuma May 6th 2000
• 4th place American Bass Association Lake Casitas April 26th 2003
• 4th place Western Outdoor News Lake Castaic February 28th 2004
• 4th place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas May 1st 2004
• 4th place Western Outdoor News lake Cachuma May 8th 2004
• 4th place Anglers Choice Lake Castaic October 24th 2004
• 4th place Western Outdoor News Lake Castaic December 11 2004
• 5th place American Bass Association Lake Castaic June 21st 2002
• 5th place Western Outdoor News Lake Cachuma November 16th 2002
• 5th place American Bass Association Lake Castaic January 11th 2003
• 5th place Western Outdoor News Lake Casitas June 7th 2003
• 5th place American Bass Association Lake Cachuma September 27th 2003
• 5th place Anglers Choice Lake Cachuma April 4th 2004
• 5th place Anglers Choice Lake Casitas June 7th 2007

Mark has 50+ plus additional finishes between 6th and 10th place