I booked a trip on the Columbia with Wade a few years ago. At the start he asked us what size fish we wanted to fish for. We decided to go for the trophy monsters. I knew we were in for a fish when Wade pulled out a 4lb Shad for the bait! 30 minutes later we were into our first fish. We played tag team on it until we finally brought the monster to the boat. It was just over 9' long! After about 10 minutes fighting this thing my hands hurt so bad I would have to hand the rod off to someone else to play the fish. We got into one other monster sized fish of over 7' and one that was just under the slot size. All in all a great day on the water. Wade was very informative and is a great guy. You would not do wrong to book a trip with him!