About Your Guides

Wild Times Guide Service is owned and operated by Phil Brown and Jim Szemenyei. Phil and Jim have been guiding in the Klamath Basin since 1989, 10 years of which were spent running the West White Lake Duck Club for professional baseball player Kevin Gross. After the private lease for the duck club was sold to the USFWS in 1999, Phil and Jim formed the partnership and lauched Wild Times Guide Service.

Phil and Jim have been featured in Stoney Wolf Production's Hunting with the Pros, ESPN's Suzuki Outdoors with Will Clark, and Primos' The Truth About Waterfowl series.

True waterfowl addicts, Phil and Jim begin the season September 1st in Canada, hunt every day of the California and Oregon season, and then wind things up by February 28th in Baja California, Mexico. They pride themselves on their observations skills and calling abilities and are always happy to pass on what they've learned.

Wild Times Guides Service is licensed in California and Oregon and hold two of the six permits issued by the USFWS, allowing them to hunt Lower Klamath and Tule Lake refuges. They also hold a BLM permit. Wild Times Guide Service is also fully bonded and insured, and both Phil and Jim are trained in First Aid and CPR.