Columbia River Fishing Guide Testimonials

I would give this service a zero star rating if one existed. I called on September 4, 2010 and booked a trip for the 10th. I spoke with the proprietor Christian Witt and paid him $100 over Paypal as a deposit. We were to meet him at 5:30 am on the 10th at an Arco AM/PM in Woodland, where I believe lots of fishing charters meet clients. I live a couple hours from Woodland so not wanting to drive at 2am I booked a hotel room there the previous night, took a day off work since he said he could only do a Friday, stayed in Woodland and was at the AM/PM at 5:35. No one showed. I waited until 7am and finally left. I tried calling the phone number he gave me the whole time while waiting, I got his voicemail. I left one message and when I called again I got a new message saying his voice mailbox was full.

I finally reached him later in the day and he claimed he had been "out of town" for 3 days but his partner Justin had been meeting people at the AM/PM every day. He described the car/boat he would have been using which did *not* have his company's name on it. I pointed out that he had my phone number and could have given it to this Justin guy, and that we approached quite a few people with boats while waiting and none of them was with this charter. He then said "You need to go up to the people who are pulling up with boats, you can't just sit in your car". I said we had done that none of them was with his company and he said, and I quote "Alls I know is Justin was there, he has been there every day". How could he know that if he has been out of town? He refused to refund my money and said he would call this Justin and call me back. He never called, and when I called again he didn't answer.

All I can say is DO NOT use this guy! He's a cheat and a fraud, I am going to file a police report and a complaint with the better business bureau as well.