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Nailsy · Pony Mullet Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 84

C'mon Bill. Laughing

The next 30 caught in this family is going to be by me. I just hope Bayslammer can remember how to use his camera.
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juanpescado · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

IslandMike · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject:

Bayslammer · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

texmike

Hey, my hats off to all the guides out there that put up with all the crap that some clients can come up with. I ran into a guide that was sitting waiting for a client that didn't get a Fishing License before going. Waisted half a day. He wasn't real happy about it but he was still waiting for them. I would have probably said "It sucks to be you, I told you to bring one." Loaded up my boat and left them standing there. (But then I wouldn't be in business very long would I.) Laughing

You guides have forgotten more about fishnig then I will probably learn. Smile

Bayslammer · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject:

I enjoy it far too much to let that small stuff bother me. Fishing is suppose to be fun, if the clients are having fun, I'm having just as much or more. It's a pleasure to be able to meet all of the hardworking folks out there who want to take a day or two and go fishing. The vast majority of clients who I have fished with have been awesome. I usually worry more about putting them on fish than they about catching them. I am not going to lie, it is very hard work. Imagine fishing every day for months at a time without a day off. I have learned that a person really has to love fishing to be out on the water working day in and day out. I admire the veteran guides who have stuck with it for years and made a honest living on the water. I have had some veteran guides put me in my place a time or two, I don't let it bother me, they still have my utmost respect and admiration.

Fishing guides come and go, I guess it is similar to Real Estate agents or Kirby vaccum salesmen. It sounds great until you actually get into to it and only a few stick around. Most of the guides I know would not make in a 9-5 anyway, they would go stir crazy, tell crude jokes or get fired for calling in sick every time they thought the bite was on!
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barnaclebill · Horse Mullet Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 139

Lots of discussion about guides here, so I'll put my 2 cents worth in.
I've fished with guides on a few occasions and have yet to dissatisfied with a guided trip. It's not that we really tore em up, or caught the ever elusive 30 incher,, but every guide I've fished with worked hard to put us on some fish,,, that's what I expect from them.
To tell the truth,, the few times I've gone on a guided trip it was mainly because I had company with me and wanted to concentrate on fishing and let someone else do the work.
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ironmanstan · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:15 am Post subject:

Being a guide is like any job where one owns his own business if you want to suceed you have to work extra hard, and put alot of hours into it and build up a clinentel. On top of everything else you have to be a people person. I've been asked for years why i'm not a guide when i have all the qualities,( not bragging). Well I have always had a full time job with insurance included and just have not felt like turning fishing in to a job. I'll save that for retirement . I have the clinentel and the knowledge. Actually anytime I take and teach someone fishing, if you really think about it i'm their guide, and I'm my own Captain. They pay my fuel and buy my smokes ...what else can a guy ask for. Oh, and they clean the boat while i clean fish it works out good . My hats off to the guides that hang in there. Everybody has their favorite guide....I have my favorite
guide and he knows who he is. Very Happy

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ehuntingdaddy · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:49 am Post subject:

Juanpescado,

That first pick is great, someone asked me after being in the water for hours last weekend, and catching only one trout: what do you think about out while you are out there? I told them Nothing & Everything, but they didn't understand. I do feel sorry for folks that don't "get" being alone with God & nature. I've always felt closer to my maker out in the bay or in a hunting blind that I've ever felt in a church!

Besides if anyone but God & me were fishing I'd have to wait on them for everything, they'd make too much noise, and be ready to leave too soon when they weren't biting. I could never be a guide!

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texmike

Hey Mike, I can see IMS as a guide. The customer would provide everything except the lip protection. IMS would provide that. Laughing

He would be real easy to find. He could paint baloons on the side of his boat and play circus music as they left the docks.