WANTED: Guide Fishing (Benwahh)

[Ray]

I will send my wife fishing for 1/2 a day with you.
If you don't throw her in, you can be a guide.
She gripes cause she don't catch anything.
When I tell her what she is doing wrong, she tells
me to shut up.
When she asks for help, I show her, then she goes
back to doing what she wants.
When I tell her she is doing wrong, again, she tells
me to shut up.
When she don't catch anything, she says it's my
fault, even though I tell her she is doing it wrong.

She is not doing anything Saturday.

[Benwahh]

Originally Posted by Ray

I will send my wife fishing for 1/2 a day with you.
If you don't throw her in, you can be a guide.
She gripes cause she don't catch anything.
When I tell her what she is doing wrong, she tells
me to shut up.
When she asks for help, I show her, then she goes
back to doing what she wants.
When I tell her she is doing wrong, again, she tells
me to shut up.
When she don't catch anything, she says it's my
fault, even though I tell her she is doing it wrong.

She is not doing anything Saturday.

I would have to talk with my dad first, he's gonna wanna go fishing sat and we only have 1 boat.. I appreciate the opportunity and would love the challenge of putting her on fish, just need to run it by him

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Benwahh

I would have to talk with my dad first, he's gonna wanna go fishing sat and we only have 1 boat.. I appreciate the opportunity and would love the challenge of putting her on fish, just need to run it by him

I was just joking about sending her. The point was what you would have to deal with as a guide. Not all are like her. Most are people from outta town that want to fish Big Lake and actually catch.
You don't know how many people come to Big Lake with their own boat and scratch. They think it is easy to catch fish here, but when they get here, they don't know where to go, or what to look for.
Some are smart and hire a guide, and catch fish. Some are cheap and get a hotel, spend money on gas to get here and in boat, and scratch, or don't do well.

If I were you, I'd go to a good school and get an associates degree in process, instrumentation or electronics, where you can work in a plant/refinery or offshore so you can have more time off than a regular 9 to 5 job. Then fish fish fish until you figure it out. After that, start working on your licenses.

[Duck Butter]

You fished this past Saturday right? Imagine having 4 people (paying customers) on your boat this past Saturday and none are really fishermen. You tell them it is gonna be tough because a cold front pushed through and it would be better not to come this weekend, but they are coming regardless. They hear Big Lake this and Big Lake that and expect to bring home an ice chest full of fillets. They don't know that it is very difficult in those conditions, on top of that they are all hungover, they don't know how to cast, their lines stay tangled up in the wind, you can't go to the weirs to catch the easy fish because it is closed, the water is muddy up and down the lake, and... etc.

Good luck with whatever you pursue though. You will never know if you don't try it

[Benwahh]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

You fished this past Saturday right? Imagine having 4 people (paying customers) on your boat this past Saturday and none are really fishermen. You tell them it is gonna be tough because a cold front pushed through and it would be better not to come this weekend, but they are coming regardless. They hear Big Lake this and Big Lake that and expect to bring home an ice chest full of fillets. They don't know that it is very difficult in those conditions, on top of that they are all hungover, they don't know how to cast, their lines stay tangled up in the wind, you can't go to the weirs to catch the easy fish because it is closed, the water is muddy up and down the lake, and... etc.

Good luck with whatever you pursue though. You will never know if you don't try it

I did, just my dad and I in the boat, caught over 15 reds not one under 22".. artificial only.. I have no experience outside of fishing with him therefore I don't know what it's like to watch fish bust yet no one hook up.. or a group of random hungover people that have never fished before. thanks for luck and advice. I will be putting my all in to this dream, it may not work out but when its all said and done I can say I tried..

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Benwahh

I did, just my dad and I in the boat, caught over 15 reds not one under 22".. artificial only.. I have no experience outside of fishing with him therefore I don't know what it's like to watch fish bust yet no one hook up.. or a group of random hungover people that have never fished before. thanks for luck and advice. I will be putting my all in to this dream, it may not work out but when its all said and done I can say I tried..

Thats the spirit

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Ray

I will send my wife fishing for 1/2 a day with you.
If you don't throw her in, you can be a guide.
She gripes cause she don't catch anything.
When I tell her what she is doing wrong, she tells
me to shut up.
When she asks for help, I show her, then she goes
back to doing what she wants.
When I tell her she is doing wrong, again, she tells
me to shut up.
When she don't catch anything, she says it's my
fault, even though I tell her she is doing it wrong.

She is not doing anything Saturday.

This is the reason I no longer take mine, too much trouble.
Guiding is not as much about killing or catching as it is taking care of the people that are paying you. You need to be level headed,honest,extraverted,and sure of yourself (some would call it cocky). Nobody wants to spend money with a doubting Thomas. I hate fishing with close friends because of the pressure I put on myself to find fish for them. Can't imagine how stressful it would be with folks I only met hours prior knowing they Expect fish blood on the deck.