Rick spent 28 years with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as a game warden, a career that took him to every nook and cranny of the Lakes Region and the White Mountains. He fine-tuned his wilderness skills not only in fishing but also in wilderness navigation and survival during his tenure. Because of his work in the search and rescue community, Rick was named N.H. Fish and Game team leader for the state’s specialized search and rescue team, and he was instrumental in implementing GPS technology into search and rescue operations.

Beginning in 1992, Rick’s passion for the outdoors extended to the Moosehead Lakes Region when he and his wife, Pat, bought into a camp in the North Woods of Maine. As a result, Rick has spent many years with his young family exploring Maine’s wilderness, finding remote fishing ponds and navigating the big rivers that the area has to offer. This exploration has laid an excellent foundation for guiding fishermen into the "Big Woods" of Maine.

A licensed fishing guide in New Hampshire and a Registered Maine Guide for fishing and recreation, Rick also holds an outfitter/guide special use permit in the White Mountain National Forest and is a licensed commercial boat operator in the states where he guides. In addition, Rick is certified in CPR and wilderness first aid and holds an honorary membership in the Mountain Rescue Service, a volunteer search and rescue organization based in North Conway, N.H. Rick is the head fishing guide at Bosebuck Mountain Camps located in the remote unspoiled wilderness of Maine’s western mountainsn at the northern end of Aziscohos Lake.

He has been labeled as a traditionalist amongst his peers, but it is Rick’s feeling that, "…for some folks it's not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but the adventure it took to find it.”

Read what some of Rick’s clients have said about their trips.