Up-Close Outfitters is a full time guide service featuring fishing reports and guides to Lake Hartwell for Striped Bass. 

Call Frank Askew at 828-273-0286 or visit www.upcloseoutfitters.com for fishing reports

The Carolina’s premier fishing and hunting guide service

Up-Close Outfitters, LLC specializes in 1/2 and full-day guided fishing trips to some of the top bass and trout waters in the North Carolina and South Carolina area.   We have chosen the foremost lakes in the region, such as Hartwell for huge striped bass, Jocassee for record-breaking trout and Fontana for some of the best walleye and smallmouth bass action the Southeast has to offer.  Our team of professional full time guides specializes in finding those giant brown trout and largemouth bass we have all been fishing for over the years.  Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Asheville NC, we are centralized to travel to South Carolina and western North Carolina.  Up-Close Outfitters also takes pride in the art of fly fishing in the Blue Ridge , Appalachian , & Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina for wild brook trout and stubborn rainbows.

Our outdoor adventures don’t stop with fishing.  Up-Close Outfitters is also the only federally permitted guide service to offer guided turkey and deer hunts in the Pisgah National Forest.  Permitted to guide on 56,481 acres, we typically have access to over 25 turkey flocks, which enables us to hunt a new gobbler each time.