The FishySites Blog

Website tips, SEO strategies, and digital insights tailored for fishing guides, charters, and outdoor businesses.

How Great Web Design Helps Fishing Guides, Charters, and Lodges Reel in More Bookings

In today’s digital age, your website isn’t just a nice extra — it’s often the first impression potential customers have of your fishing business. Whether…

FishingBooker vs. Your Own Website: The Real Math

What FishingBooker commission actually costs a charter business per year, when the platform makes sense, and when your own website pays for itself….

How Much Does a Fishing Guide Website Cost in 2026?

Real pricing for fishing guide websites: DIY builders, templates, custom builds, and ongoing costs. What you get at each price, with no sales fog….

What a Fishing Guide Website Should Include (Full Checklist)

The pages and features that make a fishing guide website rank and convert: trip pages, pricing, captain bio, reviews, booking, and the SEO under the…

Why Your Fishing Charter Website Doesn’t Rank on Google

The seven problems that keep charter websites off page one, how to check each one yourself in five minutes, and what fixing them costs….

How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Fishing Charter

A working review system for charter captains: the dock ask, the QR code, the follow-up text, and the Google rules you can’t break….

How to Write a Fishing Report That Brings In Bookings

A fishing report template for guides and charters: what to include, how often to post, and how one report feeds your Google rankings, email, and…

Google Business Profile for Fishing Guides: Setup Guide

Step-by-step Google Business Profile setup for fishing guides and charters: categories, service areas, photos, services, and the settings that drive map rankings….

How to Rank in the Google Map Pack: Fishing Charters

What actually moves map pack rankings for fishing charters: proximity, categories, reviews, and the profile-website connection, explained without jargon….

Do Fishing Guides Need a Website? An Honest Answer

Facebook page, FishingBooker, word of mouth: do you actually need a website to run a guide business? The honest cases for no and yes….

Marketing Is Half the Job: Owning the Digital Landscape in Your Market

Guiding is a business, and marketing belongs at the front of it. How your website, Google profile, reviews, social, and email work as one system….

How to Become a Fishing Guide

How to Become a Fishing Guide: Licenses, Costs, and Your First Clients Plenty of good anglers think about guiding. I think its a natural train…