Maine Guide Training & Guide License Exam Preparation
Follow Your Dream
Become a Maine Guide
Our Maine Guide School prepares you to take Maine’s
Hunting, Fishing and Recreation
Guide’s License Exam
Why take our course?
We teach from experience!
With over 30 years of experience guiding and outfitting trips throughout North and South America, as well as managing a 30-guest traditional Maine sporting camp, we know the skills you need to not only pass the Maine Guide Exam but to be successful Maine Guides. We use our experience to teach the material, not just present it.
Nearly 85% of our students pass their exam on the first try!!
Maine’s Guide License Exam is considered one of the toughest in the country. The Maine Guide licensing board sees a failure rate of first time applicants, greater than 60%. Why not put the odds in your favor?
What will you learn?
Map & Compass
You will learn how to read a map, measure distance, and use your compass with the map and in the field.
Emergency Situations
Laws, Rules & Ethics
Boating & Canoeing
You will learn canoe paddle strokes, canoeing terms, boating safety, river and lake rescue techniques, and boating laws.
Species Identification
All test candidates will be asked to identify mammals, waterfowl, fish, and even occasionally plants and trees.
Business Management
Although not a topic that you will be tested on, we want to see class participants successful in their business as well as the exam. We will discuss insurance, websites, advertising, marketing, keeping clients happy & coming back, and much more.
Much, much more...
There are more topics than we can list including firearms, fly-fishing, trapping, cold and hot weather injuries, packing gear, food storage and meal preparation, setting up a campsite, and the list goes on…
Carroll and Lila,
I passed my hunting guide test the first time! I recently went back and passed my fishing on the first try as well. Neither of these would have been possible without your class! Thanks again for all your help!
Jeremy Bellegarde
Dixfield, Maine
Upcoming Classes
Skowhegan, Me. – May 4th to 6th, 2023
Skowhegan-Madison Elks Lodge
21 Silver St., Skowhegan ME 04976
$495 / person
Columbia, Me. – May 11th to 13th, 2023
Class is Full
Pleasant River Fish & Game Conservation Assoc.
1597 Tibbettstown Road, Columbia, ME
$495 / person
Danforth, Me. – May 18th to 20th, 2023
Class is Full
34 Irish Settlement Road, Danforth, ME
$495 / person
Brewer, Me. – June 8th to 10th, 2023
Penobscot County Conservation Association
$495 / person
Gorham, Me. – July 13th to 15th, 2023
Windham-Gorham Rod & Gun Club
$495 / person
Ft. Fairfield, Me. – July 20th to 22nd, 2023
Ft. Fairfield Frontier Fish & Game Club
$495 / person (non-members)
$450 / person (members)
Club Members - Please contact us to register at the discounted rate.
Skowhegan, Me. – December, 2023
Dates to be determined
Skowhegan-Madison Elks Lodge
21 Silver St., Skowhegan ME 04976
$495 / person