Bones Reserve · 210-629-7561

Bones Fishing Guide Service

Redfish Are My Specialty

Fourteen years on Texas freshwater — Calaveras, Braunig, Canyon Lake, and waters beyond. A day built around limits, laughter, and fish on ice by sundown.

  • 14+Years Guiding
  • 100%Recommended
  • EliteTPWD Angler
Young angler holding a trophy redfish at Calaveras Lake
Calaveras Lake · San Antonio, Texas

On my pathway of chasing my dreams of fishing, I earned the Freshwater Elite Angler Award — one of twenty-five certified across the State of Texas. My job is simple: put you on some fish.

The Captain

Raymond “Bones” Esckilsen

Captain Raymond Bones Esckilsen
Texas Freshwater Elite Angler Texas Parks & Wildlife

A Life on the Water

Fishing with my father as a boy created memories I still carry. Those mornings on the bank — conversation, silence, the strike — shaped everything that followed. I knew someday the water would be my livelihood.

Today I guide families, companies, and groups who want more than a boat ride. They want a safe, focused, productive day with someone who reads the lake like a manuscript. San Antonio’s twin lakes are home. When the bite moves, we follow it to Canyon, the Guadalupe, the Nueces, or Choke Canyon.

“Bones Fishing Guide Service” exists to give you and your guests a day you will talk about for years.

What We Pursue

On the Line

02

Blue Catfish

Monsters over twenty pounds on troll and rig. A boat-load of blues and reds in a single four-hour window is not uncommon.

03

Striped Bass

Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe — June through October, and again February into April when the stripers turn on.

04

White Bass

The spring run on the Nueces and Choke Canyon. Wade the river in late January when the water is low and the bite is furious.

Where We Go

Texas Waters

Calaveras Lake

Calaveras & Braunig

San Antonio’s twin lakes — year-round production, redfish and cats, the water I know best.

Canyon Lake

Canyon & Guadalupe

When San Antonio slows, we chase stripers and whites in Hill Country current.

Choke Canyon

Choke Canyon & Nueces

Out of town, wild country, fantastic white bass — sometimes crappie when the water cooperates.

From the Season

Proof on the Deck

Real clients. Real limits. Click any frame to enlarge.

The Vessel

Shaded. Clean. Ready.

A comfortable deck for up to four — well shaded for Texas sun, immaculate between trips, outfitted with Okuma rods, Rapala cranks, and Bass Assassin plastics tuned to these lakes.

  • Rods, reels, and bait provided
  • Your catch filleted and bagged
  • Patient with first-timers and children
  • Casting trips best for two or three anglers
Guide boat on the lake Boat deck Fishing from the boat
Guest Voices
We caught our limit in just over three hours. Bones was friendly, laughed with us, and was utterly professional — we felt we had made a new friend by dock time.
C. Neyland
Like fishing with a neighbor you have known for years. He knows exactly where to go and when. You could not ask for a more gracious guide.
Randy Oakes
Other guides circled our boat after we docked, searching for dropped bait. Raymond chuckled and told them — you are not going to find it. Five stars, every time.
Ammon Taylor
Captain Bones is the best. A great fishing guide that makes you feel like family — shaded boat, clean deck, fillets before you reach the truck.
Mark Bukowski

Forty-three reviews · 100% recommend on Facebook

Reservations

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210-629-7561

Bonesfishing@yahoo.com

13523 Pelican Crossing · San Antonio, Texas

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