for guides
Your whole day, in your pocket.
The trips you are on, who is coming, where you are meeting them, and what you are owed. It works with no service, because that is where the job is.
Do you guide for a shop or book your own trips?
I guide for an outfitter
Then this page is for you, and the app is free to you. It comes with the shop — if they are on Brindlechute you already have an invite waiting.
I book my own clients
Then you are running an outfit, even if it is just you and a boat. You want the operator side, which handles the booking, the deposits, and the permit reporting.
what it does
Built for the tailgate, not the desk
Your days, before you are asked
The trips you are on, the ones you have been offered, and the days you said you could not work. You accept or decline in the app instead of in a thread at ten at night.
The guests, before you meet them
Names, the party, who has fished before, dietary notes, and what has already been paid. You walk up to the truck knowing who these people are.
The plan, laid out for you
Meeting time and place, and the checklist for the trip. The same information every time, so nothing depends on remembering to ask.
Works with no service
The canyon has no bars. Your day loads before you leave and your reports save when you get back to signal.
What you are owed
What each trip pays and what has been paid out. Not a conversation you have to start, and not a number you have to keep in a notebook.
Reports in a minute, not an evening
Post-trip notes and what happened, filed against the trip while it is fresh, from the tailgate.
why guides ask their outfitter for this
Most of what makes a season miserable is not the rowing
It is finding out about a trip the night before, an unfair-feeling rotation nobody will discuss, and waiting on pay for work you did three weeks ago. None of that is really about money, and all of it is fixable.
- The rotation is visible, so you can see the days are being handed out fairly
- You set your own availability. Nobody schedules you onto a day you said you could not work
- The trip arrives with the guest details already on it, not as a name and a time
- Your pay comes off the trip you actually ran
How guides get the app today
The app comes with the outfitter. When an operation runs on Brindlechute, every guide on the roster gets an invite and a link to install it — there is nothing for you to buy and no account to set up on your own.
If your outfitter is not on it yet, that is the useful thing you can do:
Your shop is not on it yet?
Send it to whoever does the scheduling. That is genuinely how most operations find us — a guide who was tired of the 6 a.m. group text.